Matt and Phil Review Class

Today in West Civ we reviewed for the test we are having tomorrow. Matt and Phil reviewed the power point that we’ve gone over a good thousand plus times. Mr. Schick would ring the bell once we needed to know things for the test tomorrow.

·        In 496 Clovis had a battlefield conversion- he and his 3000 warriors became Christians

·        The church in Rome likes this

·        By 511 the franks are united into one kingdom, with Clovis and the Church working as partners.

·        Church + Frankish rulers= rise in Christianity

·        In 520, benedict writes rules for monks,

·        Vows of poverty

·        Chastity

·        Obedience

·        His sister Scholastica writes similar rules for nuns

·        They operate schools, maintain libraries, copy books.

·        Pope Gregory 1 goes secular

·        Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies

·        This is a theocracy

·        Gregory’s spiritual kingdom extends from Italy to England, from Spain to Germany