The Middle Ages

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  1. 2. The former "dancer" who married Justinian
  2. 4. The name given to Charles Martel, by his troops, after the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.
  3. 6. In, of or by the world (outside of the Church)
  4. 7. A measure of the intensity and tolerance of a religious group
  5. 8. The period of history, after the fall of Western Rome, which Renaissance scholars argued was blocked from The Light by the Shadow of Rome and the Rise of Islam
  6. 10. the practice of secretly obtaining information, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
  7. 11. The disease which almost killed Justinian, and certainly caused him to suffer from the effects of brain injury
  8. 12. A loose alliance of city-states or colonies
  9. 15. The office of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church
  10. 17. The king of the Franks
  11. 18. The king generally considered to have been the greatest European ruler of the Middle Ages
  12. 21. The Byzantine Emperor during the Nike revolt
  13. 22. The location of the first confirmed attack on a Catholic monastery by Vikings
  14. 23. A woman within the Church who has dedicated to living her life as the "bride of Christ", and is meant to be a living example of the relationship between Jesus and the Church
  15. 24. The largest barbarian tribe in the West after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
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  1. 1. A Christian community of monks that is intended to be an example of Christian life
  2. 3. a group of volunteer citizen soldiers
  3. 5. The political "state" that was intended to be the physical representation of God's spiritual Christian kingdom on earth
  4. 9. The Pope known as the "founder" of the medieval papacy
  5. 13. The Germanic king who defended the Pope and was the second ruler granted the title of "Emperor" by the Church
  6. 14. The sea-faring barbarians from Scandinavia who began attacking and raiding coastal villages of Northern Europe during the 8th Century A.D.
  7. 16. The journey on which Mohammed led his followers from Mecca to Medina
  8. 19. The last Emperor of Western Rome
  9. 20. A man who has dedicated his life to living in service of the Church and God's spiritual kingdom