R E V I E W A N D T H E D E C L I N E O F T H E E M P I R E

CHARLEMAGNE AND THE CAROLINGIANS

BELL WORK

-Read pages 203-205 in your book and then

answer the following question:

• Who were the Carolingians and what are

they most remembered for (5 sentences)

REVIEW GAME

• 1. You are going to work on your own to answer the following questions.• 2. Please mark your answers as we go.• 3. The person with the most answers correct at the end wins!• 4. There are 23 points possible

WHO WAS THE FIRST FRANK TO UNITE ALL OF GAUL?

•Pepin of Heristal

WHO DEFEATED THE MUSLIMS AT THE BATTLE OF TOURS (732)

•Charles Martel

WHO WAS THE FIRST MAYOR OF THE HOUSEHOLD TO BE CROWNED KING OF THE FRANKS?

•Pepin the Short

AFTER PEPIN THE SHORT’S DEATH WHO TOOK POWER? BE CAREFUL!

•Charlemagne and Carloman

CHARLEMAGNE MEANS WHAT IN FRENCH?

•Charles the Great

CHARLEMAGNE RULED WELL BY DOING WHAT 3 THINGS?

•1. careful alliances with aristocracy

•2. continued warfare with neighbors

•3. good management

ON CHARLEMAGNE’S 4TH VISIT TO ROME IN 800 AD HE RECEIVED WHAT FROM WHOM?

•1. The Crown of Rome, Imperial Crown•2. Pope Leo III

WHAT WAS CHARLEMAGNE’S HISTORIAN’S NAME?

•Einhardt

WHO WAS THE HEAD OF THE CAROLINGIAN GOVERNMENT

•The emperor/ king

THE HEAD OF PALACE CLERGY

•Chaplain

THE COUNT OF THE PALACE

•Chief Lay Official

DID TRAVELING INSPECTIONS

•Missi Dominici

CURRENCY WAS BASED ON A SINGLE (SILVER) COIN CALLED A

•Denarius

WHAT IS THE PICTURE AN EXAMPLE OF?

CHARLOMAGNE’S TRUSTED ADVISOR AND EDUCATOR FROM SAXONY

•Alcuin of York

LANGUAGE INVENTED SO THAT ALL SERVICES AND EDUCATION COULD BE CONDUCTED IN THE SAME MANNER

•Medieval Latin

7 PART SCHOOLING CREATED BY THE CAROLINGIANS

•The Liberal Arts

THE FIRST THREE WERE CALLED WHAT? THE NEXT FOUR WERE CALLED WHAT?

•The Trivium•The Quadrivium

CLIP(S)!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtbdUvGW1c

R E D PAG E S 2 0 3 - 2 0 5 B E F O R E W E B E G I N

CAROLINGIAN SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND DECLINE

ARISTOCRATIC CULTURE

• Popular culture remained mostly oral, not

written

• Common entertainments were oral poetry,

fighting, hunting, and buying expensive

goods from around the world.

• Aristocrats looked to live a life of luxury

ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

• The agricultural economy was improving (remember ch. 6)

• Large estates farmed by serfs provided food, cloth, and wine

• Most cities were small

• Trade was conducted by traveling merchants

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

• As Charlemagne conquered new areas new churches, monasteries, and convents were built.• It was a period of major building.• Byzantine architecture was the model for most

major churches including Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen)• Many of the churches included mosaics or painted

walls just like the Byzantines

REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE

• 1. Division of the empire• 2. New Invasions

DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE

• Charlemagne left his empire to his weak son, Louis the Pious• Louis’ family turned on him and at his

death his three sons (Louis the German, Lothair, and Charles the Bald) divided the empire• The Treaty of Verdun split the Carolingian

empire in 843 and established 3 separate kingdoms

DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE

• Carolingian rulers feuded

• The loyalty of the military aristocracy declined

• The bonds holding the government to its’ people dissolved.

NEW INVASIONS

• (S) Muslims form North Africa invaded Sicily and southern Italy in 827, attacked Rhone in 842, and raided Rome in 846

• (E) Magyars moved into the Danube River Valley in 895

• (N) Scandinavians/ Vikings