The Franks and Charlemagne: Homework

Know the key words, tell cause from effect, and place new facts in the story of the empire.

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Part A — Key Words / 4

Type the word that fits each clue.

1.
What was the name of the Germanic people who built a strong kingdom in what is now France?Answer
2.
Charlemagne gave a powerful landholder charge of each region. What was that landholder called?Answer
3.
What is a written agreement between rulers called?Answer
4.
Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne in Rome in the year 800. What title did the crowd give him?Answer

Short answers. Think about why.

1.
Which Frankish leader became a Christian around 507, and most of his subjects followed?Answer
2.
Which came first, Pepin the Short taking the crown or Charlemagne becoming emperor?Answer
3.
Why did Charlemagne send inspectors out in pairs?Answer
4.
Why did he have the laws written down?Answer
5.
When Louis died, who fought over the empire?Answer

Place each new fact.

1.
The empire was split into three parts at Verdun. Did that make it stronger or weaker?Answer
2.
Raiders struck in the 800s: Vikings, Muslim raiders and one more group. Which one?Answer
3.
A Saxon rebellion ended with thousands executed at Verden. Was the Saxons' new faith chosen freely, or forced?Answer
4.
A count and a bishop travel the regions and report back. Why would Charlemagne send them?Answer
5.
Why did the empire last only as long as Charlemagne lived?Answer

Answer each one in one sentence. You mark these yourself against the key.

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Notes

Part A — the answers.

Part B — the answers.

Part C — the answers.

Part D — what a good answer includes.

Answers vary. A good answer names at least two tools from the lesson: counts over the regions, inspectors who reported back, laws written down, and a court school with scholars.
Answers vary. A good answer gives one cause: it was held together by one man's will, his sons fought over it, the Treaty of Verdun divided it in three, or raiders struck from every side.