What can you predictabout the Franks fromthis picture? From your prediction,

how were they differentfrom other Germanictribes?

Objective:To identify Clovis and how heaffected the Franks by usingARS to get 6 facts about him andthen create a Sensory Figurefor him usingthese facts.

AnD Section Two: The Hammer,Charles Martel

During this period, a Germanic people called Franks, who lived along the Rhine River, began to build a new civilization.

The Franks were divided and without a common ruler until 481, when one Frankish group chose Clovis as king. Clovis brought all the Franks under one rule.

Clovis was the first Germanic king to accept the Catholic religion when, after a battle victory, he and 3,000 of his soldiers converted, or changed religion, to Christianity.

Clovis extended his rule over what is now France and western Germany and set up his capital in Paris.

Before long, all the people in Clovis's kingdom practiced the same religion, spoke the same language, and felt united.

The Frankish kings who followed Clovis were weak rulers who divided the kingdom among their sons. The sons lost much of their power to local nobles, and the Franks began to accept the leadership of a government official known as the “Mayor of the Palace.”

Charles Martel, known as “The Hammer” because of his victory at Tours, was the most powerful Mayor, and he had the support of the Church.

When Charles Martel died, his son Pepin became Mayor of the Palace.

Pepin was the first Frankish king to be anointed, or blessed with holy oil, by the Pope.

Pepin helped the Pope by leading an army into Italy when he was threatened by a group of Germans known as Lombards.

Pepin defeated the Lombards and gave the land they held in central Italy to the Pope, making him the political ruler of much of the Italian Peninsula.

The Consolidation of Frankish Power

Answer movie Questions:

1. Which nomadic tribe migrated west from Asia?

2. Which 3 areas of the empire did the Romans lose to the Germans?

3. When did the Western Roman Empire finally collapse?

HOME WORK

Using our class example of Clovis,You are to create a Sensory of Charles Martel, complete It with identifying his time period, and using 3 out of the 6 senses. (check your ARS for 3 facts!) You shouldalso refer to your textbook.

Charles,

second son of Pepin,

called“Charles the Great”

Section ThreeCHARLEMAGNE

Objective: to use SQ3R and identify at least 3 reasons Charlemagnewas “great” using key terms and facts

to back up our opinion.

By the sword and the crossCharlemagne became master of Western Europe

Here is a map of Charlemagne's kingdom. The light-green shows his kingdom holdings after his brother's death in 771. The dark-green shows his kingdom holdings in 800.

Close ties with the Church were important.

Church officials kept records and helped Charlemagne run the country.

Any act against the Church was a sign of disloyalty to Charlemagne

Leader of a Christian Empire

Coronation by Pope Leo as Holy Roman Emperor in

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Charlemagne completes the establishment of his court at Aachen

and attempts to gather the best scholars in Europe at his court .

Alcuin worked with Charlemagne to develop the Palace School, a place where people from all walks of life could receive excellent education.

Charlemagne chose counts to run courts throughout his empire.

They:

Took care of local problems

Protected the poor and weak

Raised armies

Charlemagne- Answer movie questions:

1. How did Charlemagne increase his empire?

2. Who were the powerful leaders during Merovingian rule?

3. Whom did Pepin try to get support from to take control of the throne?

4. How does the Carolingian Dynasty get its name?

ESTATE LIFE

Their wealth comes from goods grown or made on estates.

Lords lived in stone farmhouses. Wooden fences (stockades) were built around the houses. Farmhouses had: banquet hall, sleeping quarters, cellars, stables, storage places and small chapel.

Farmers lived in simple wooden houses on estate. They worked in the fields, orchards, forests fields owned by the lord 3 days a week

Farmers practiced crop rotation to help them grow larger crops. They left a field fallow each season.

Lords (also known as nobles) were the most powerful people in the empire.

Minstrels traveled throughout the empire singing the praises of Charlemagne.

Charlemagne II

Questions to answer:

List 5 facts you learn from the movie

• Lothair I received the middle kingdom, a narrow strip that extended from the North Sea to central Italy. He also kept the title of emperor.

The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms, one for each of his grandsons.

Collapse of the Empire

• Louis II (called the German) received lands east of the Rhine River, most of which later became what is now Germany.

• The western part, later called France, went to Charles II (the Bald).

HOME WORK:

Design a report card for Charlemagne. Create a school thatReflects what you have read about Charlemagne. Think of 5 “courses” to grade him on, give him a grade and comments. The comments need to include key terms and facts.