4.2 Keizers, koningen en heren

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The Middle Ages

Keizers, koningen  en heren

The end of the Western Roman Empire

* 476

* Seperate kingdoms 

* Middle ages 500-1500

* Early Middle Ages - Late Middle Ages

Frankish Empire

* Germanic people

* Clovis manegd to unite all the Franks

Power of the Frankish Empire

1.  Clovis was a good army leader

2.  Clovis was Christian -> Collaborate with the Church in Rome

-  Church powerful and had good education

- Clovis helped spread Christianity

Name a reason how the Franish Empire could grow so big.

Feudal system: Drag the blue words to the right area.

Vassal

Rear vassal

Rear vassal

Liege Lord

Vassal

Feudal system

Manor system

Serfs

The manor

Liege lord

Loyalty

Protection

Land in fief

Servile duties

Charles the Great

The feudal system

The manor system

economic system

Politic system

Peak of the Frankish Empire

* 800

* Charles the Great (owned a big part of Europe)

* Pope crowned him emperor

* Seen as the successor of the Roman Emperors

Charles the Great and the Feudal system

The Feudal system

* Empire to big

* To expensive to have a permanent army

* Feudel system

Provide soldiers

Land they held in fief

Vassalsn

Charles the Great

(Feudal lord)

Swear absolute loyalty

Feudal system increased

* Vassals often had their own knights

= Free men who fought for the vassals

* Rewarded with land in fief

* Rear vassals

Vassals and rear vassals = Nobility

Het leenstelsel

Liege lord

Loyalty

Vassals

rear vassals

Land in fief

Charles the Great

* Charles died in 814

* Feudal system falls apart

* Europe changed

1. Frankish Empire split into smaller pieces

* Frankish law = King's land had to be divided among his sons after his death

* Kingdoms split up

2. Government became weak

* Feudal system

* Started treating their land as their own, not their fief

* Land became hereditary

* Sons not loyale and didn't obey

* King lost his power

3. Attacks 

* North -> Vikings

* East -> Hungarians

* Weaked the empire

Name a reason how the Frankish Empire could grow so big.

Feudal system: Drag the blue words to the right area.

Vassal

Rear vassal

Rear vassal

Feudal Lord

Vassal

Feudal system

Manor system

Serfs

The manor

Feudal lord

Loyalty

Protection

Land in fief

Servile duties

Charles the Great

The feudal system

The manor system

economic system

Politic system

Name the reason why the Feudal system failed

Assignments

Make the assignments of paragraph 4.2