Celts and Clovis

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Across
  1. 7. family who controlled territories in northern France before a king consolidated power
  2. 8. great warrior who fought a dragon.
  3. 11. Celtic warrior who, with his three companions, defeated a giant named Giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows
  4. 13. Wife of Clovis
  5. 16. a time where not a lot was written down because of illiteracy and expense of materials
  6. 17. A poet; in olden times, a performer who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment.
  7. 18. Tribes that came to help Vortigern fight in exchange for land in Britain to live on. After they settled, they invited their friends to come as well. Where they settled is now called Angleland
Down
  1. 1. the Gauls to defeat the Huns
  2. 2. storytellers had amazing memories to retell stories, pass on history and teach about morals.
  3. 3. who were praised men who were strong and courageous fightershen did the Celts drive out the last Roman soldiers?when the Western Roman Empire fell
  4. 4. created by Clovis so that the Frankish Empire had the same laws everywhere
  5. 5. an ancient region and Roman province that included most of present-day France
  6. 6. Greek city in which the members of the Franks descended from
  7. 9. Celtic king who asked two barbarian tribes to come help him fight his enemies
  8. 10. of the Franks who unified Gaul, converted to Christianity and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy.
  9. 11. Pushed out by Anglo-Saxons and moved to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
  10. 12. Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome
  11. 14. Germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul. Their leader was Clovis and he would later bring Christianity to the region. By 511 the Franks had united into one kingdom and they controlled the largest and strongest parts of Europe.
  12. 15. Declared capital of the Frankish Empire by Clovis