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In January 1077 the king of Germany stood barefoot in the snow outside an Italian castle for three days, waiting for a pope to forgive him. Two decades later knights from France and Germany were marching toward Jerusalem, and two and a half centuries after that a bacterium carried by fleas killed between a third and a half of Europe's people within a few years. The thousand years after Rome were not a pause between two brighter ages. They were when Europe's towns, universities, banks and arguments about church and state took shape.

You will meet a Frankish emperor who could barely write, a Viking leader paid off with a duchy, a peasant fined for selling weak ale, a Syrian nobleman with Frankish friends, and a student begging his parents for money. Along the way you will learn why many historians now distrust the words "Dark Ages" and "feudalism", how to read a chronicle against its enemies' version of the same massacre, and why a plague that killed so many left the survivors bargaining for better lives.

Levels

  1. 1 1. After Rome: The Dark Ages Question 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Charlemagne and the Vikings 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Lords, Vassals and the Feudalism Debate 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Manor and Village 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Church, Monks and Reform 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. The Crusades 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Towns, Guilds and Universities 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. The Black Death and the Late Medieval Crisis 5-question quiz

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