| A | B |
|---|
| Capital of Western Roman Empire | Rome |
| Capital of Eastern Roman Empire | Constantinople |
| Eastern Branch of Roman Empire | Byzantinian Empire |
| Emperor that moved the Roman Capital East | Emperor Constantine |
| Western Branch of the church in Roman Empire | Roman Catholic Church |
| Eastern Branch of the church in Roman Empire | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Head of the Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
| Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Patriarch |
| Leaders who followed Muhammad | Caliphs |
| Caliph means | Successors to the Prophet |
| Leaders of first four Caliphates all | were family or personally knew Muhammad |
| Muslims who believed Husayn was the rightful Caliph | Shi'ites |
| Abbasid Caliphate believers who stressed connections to Muhammad | Sunnis |
| Period in history when learning and civilization declined | Dark Ages |
| Was lost when Rome fell | trade, language, and culture loss |
| Communities of Christian men who gave up all personal possessions | Monasteries |
| Armored warriors on horseback | Knights |
| Political and social system based on holding land | Feudalism |
| Person who received land from a lord | Vassal |
| In a feudal system, a piece of land is known as a | Fief |
| Small estate from which a lord gained its livelihood | Manor |
| Peasants that were bound to the land | Serfs |
| Frankish King that converted to Roman Catholicism | Clovis I |
| A monk who set rules for the monastic life | Benedict |
| Pope who established Christendom | Gregory I |
| Pepin the Short's son and first king to unite Germanic people | Charlemagne |
| Charlemagne's approach at converting Saxons to Christianity | convert or die, baptism by sword |
| Charlemagne's attempt at finding a common letter form for a universal education | Caroline Miniscule |
| Captured and taken prisoner to Ireland, once free went to France and studied for the Priesthood, became successful missionary | Patrick of Ireland |
| Served as farms, inns, hospitals, schools and libraries | Medieval Monastery |
| Most valuable tools of war for the vikings | Warships |
| Vikings traveled great distances, beating Europeans to the Americas by finding modern day Province of | Newfoundland |
| Vikings strategy for attacks | Quick, in and out strikes looking for valuable possessions instead of territories |
| Many of the dialects of this era stem from | Latin |
| Germanic people did not see allegiances to Kings but too | Family or of leaders |
| Island raided by the vikings | Lindisfarne |
