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Charlemagne Unites Germanic Kingdoms (Germanic Kingdoms Emerge (Clovis was…

- - - - They lived in their lord and he gave them food, weapons, and treasure.
        
        The consider it a disgrace to outlive their lord.
        
        So, what is the difference between the two soldiers?
        
        One is very willing to do whatever they are told, and the other is the opposite.
      - The Germanic warriors felt no obligation to obey a king they didn't know.
        
        They wouldnt pay officials to collect taxes or administer justice.
        
        Germanic Warroirs
  - - - Clovis and 3000 of his warriors asked the bishop to baptize them.
        
        Who is Clovis?
        
        The leader of the Roman Soldiers.
        
        Clovis
    - - They wanted to spread Christianity
        
        Christianity/ Religion
- - - - Monasteries Textbook Definition: A building built for religious communities to come under one church.
        
        Christian men, called Monks, gave up possessions and devoted their lives to God.
        
        Women who followed God were called Nuns and lived in Convents.
      - In the 520's, Italian Monk named Benedict began to write books about rules to follow in Monasteries.
        
        Benedict's sisters went to covenants and spread the rules
      - Those guidelines became a model for many religious communities in Western Europe.
      - Monasteries became the most educated communities
        
        Monks opened schools, libraries, and copied books.
      - Venerable Bede wrote the history of England
      - Monks made copies of religious writing with ornate letters and brilliant pictures.
      - These showed Roman "Intellectual Heritage"
      - What book{s} did the Monks copy the most?
      - They would often copy books about history of the country or their own accounts of the Bible
      - Medieval Book Production and Monastic Life
    - - Missionaries also spread Christianity
        
        Missionaries often risked their lives to spread their religious beliefs.
        
        What caused Christianity to spread through Europe and why was it important?
        
        Missionaries would travel throughout Europe and spread God's word. Christianity in Europe: History, Spread & Decline
      - 600's the churches had converted many Germanic People
      - Politics spread Christianity
      - In Southern Europe, fear of costal invasion made Muslims convert into Christians.
      - The converted people settled in Rome
    - - In 590, Gregory the 1st (Gregory the Great) became Pope.
      - Head of the church, Gregory made the Pope's power beyond just the churches, but also politics
      - Secular = Power involved in politics
      - Pope's Palace was the center of Roman Government
      - Gregory used church revenues to raise armies, repair roads, and help the poor.
      - Gregory negotiated treaties with invaders like Lombards
      - According to Gregory, Italy to England and Spain to Germany was HIS land
      - It was a spiritual kingdom
      - The ideas of the "Church Kingdom" ruled by the Pope, will be called the Middle Ages.
      - How was Pope Gregory 1st like a Roman Emperor?
      - Saint Gregory the Great
      - He would negotiate treaties, built armies, and repaired roads.
- - - - Known as Mayor of the palace
      - Most powerful person in the Frankish Kingdom
        
        In-charge
        
        Officially
        
        Royal Household
        
        Estates
        
        Unofficially
        
        Led armies
        
        Made policies
      - Charles Held more power then the King
        
        How did he gain all the power?
        
        Rise of Power
    - - Small kingdoms sprang up
        
        Were larger then the state of Connecticut
        
        The Franks
        
        Controlled the largest and strongest parts of Europes
        
        How did they gain all this power?
- - - - Why was there a decline?
        
        Population shifts
        
        Cities were abandoned as centers of administrations
        
        Who started the movement?
        
        Nobles retreated and cities were left with weak leaderships.
        
        Downfall of cities
        
        Population of western Europe became mostly rural.
        
        Others moved to the country to farm.
        
        Disruption of trade
        
        Merchants dealt with invasions on land and sea.
        
        Businesses failed and collapsed.
        
        Money was scarce
        
        Economy was failing
      - https://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome/fall_of_rome.php
    - - As the families left and went into rural areas, the intelligence sank.
      - Priests and other church officials were literate.
      - Knowledge of other cultures were almost lost.
      - Tribes had oral traditions that couldn't be written down, and they had no written language.
      - Loss of a Common Language
        
        As populations mixed, latin changed.
        
        It was no longer understood.
        
        Other languages had evolved from latin.
        
        https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/07/reader-mail/evolution-of-the-latin-language/