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| Primary occupation of German men |
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| Members of German society who did most of the work |
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| Basic unit of Germna society |
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| German tribe that used its kingdom in North Africa as a base for pirate raids |
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| Form of government set up by invading Germans |
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| Fierce nomadic people from Asia who invaded Europe |
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| Term formerly used for the Early Middle Ages |
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| River valley along the Roman Empire's border where many Germans settled |
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| East Goths, driven westward by the Huns |
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| West Goths; they capture and plundered Rome |
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| A German tribe gave its name to this word; the willful and senseless destruction of property |
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| European country occupied by Romans, then Vandals, then Visitgoths |
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| State of European society after the German invasions destroyed the Roman Empire |
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| Why the Germans didn't write their own history |
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| they had no written language |
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| Where German warriors expected to spend their afterlife |
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| Visitgoth king who led the sack of Rome in 410 |
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| German tibe that moved across the Alps into northern Italy |
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| German tribe that moved into central Gaul |
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| Religion the Frankish king and his warriors converted to |
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| Institution that supported the Franks after they converted |
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| Modern-day country that takes its name from the Franks |
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| Religion the invading Arabs hoped to spread throughout Europe |
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| English translation of both Charlemagne and Karl der Grosse |
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| River along which the Franks lived |
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| King who first brought all Franks under one rule |
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| Two characterisitcs shared by most Franks that helped them to feel united |
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| common religion and language |
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| Modern country that developed from the Western Frankish kingdom |
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| Modern country that developed from the Eastern Frankish kingdom |
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| Leader who defeated the invading Arabs |
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| Battle of 732 in which the invading Arabs were defeated |
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| First Frankish king personally crowned by the pope |
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| Frankish king who became "Emperor of the Romans" |
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| The invading peoples defeated by Charlemagne |
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| Lombards, Saxons, Slavs, Avars, Arabs (Muslims) |
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| Charlemagne made this available even to some lower-class children |
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| Charlemagne's only surviving son |
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| Agreement that ivided the empire among Charlemagne's three grandsons |
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| Capital of the Frankish kingdom under Clovis |
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| Charlemagne's capital city |
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| Asian invaders who reminded Europeans of the Huns |
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| Early inhabitants of Britain, who were conquered by Romans |
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| Three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain around 450 |
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| Angles, Saxons, and Jutes |
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| Tribe that gave its name to England |
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| Lands the Celts fled to from Britain |
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| Wales, Western Scotland, and Ireland |
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| Famed missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland |
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| Status of most English people |
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| The two peoples of northern Britain (modern Scotland) |
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| Body of water crossed bythe tribes that invaded Britain |
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| Centers of culture in Ireland |
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| Head missionary to Anglo-Saxons |
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| Center of the Christian churhc in England, as established by Augustine |
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| King of Wessex who fought the invading Vikings |
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| English term for invading Vikings |
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| Local districts of England |
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| Officials who governed local districts in England |
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| Body of water between Britain and Ireland |
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| Important kingdom in northern England |
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| Important kingdom in central England |
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| Important kingdom in southern England |
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| Pope who decided to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity |
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| Anglo-Saxon king who allowed the missionaries to teach about Christianity |
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| Northeastern region of England ruled by the Vikings |
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| Europeans' term for Vikings |
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| A characterisitc of Vikings that terrified Europeans |
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| brutal and pitiless in fighting |
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| What the Vikings used much of their abundant timber for |
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| Occupation of seafaring Vikings in addition to raiding |
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| Primary occupation of Viking men |
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| An advantage of Viking raids for Europeans |
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| opening of trade routes, learning shipping skills |
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| The three kingdoms of the Vikings |
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| Vikings had none of these for their children |
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| God of thunder and lightning |
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| Body of water crossed by Viking raiders heading toward Russia |
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| Norwegian adventurer who founded a colony on Greenland |
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| The two North Atlantic islands colonized by Norwegian Vikings |
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| Eric the Red's son, who saield to North America |
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| Vikings' name for the sport on the coast of North America where they landed |
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| Body of water the Vikings crossed to get to Greenland and North America |
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| Viking letters of the alphabet |
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| Heroic or mythic poems of the Vikings |
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| Heroic stories of the Vikings |
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| Danish ruler who became king of England |
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| Area of France where Danes settled in large numbers |
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