The Mediterranean environment had everything you would needto have to make crops such as; fertile soil, climate that wasn'ttoo hot or cold and tons of rain fall and sunshine. Perfect forcrops.

The sea was a transportation routethat encouraged people to travel andtrade.

A great place for large numbersof people to live in.

Population grew rapidly and towns formed.

Philosophy The search forwisdom, ideas, and knowledge

B.C.E. Before the common era

Roman Legions Roman armed forces

Came to power of westernEurope in 768 C.E.

Unlike the past rulers, he was veryinterested in re building civilization.

Carolingian Empire

He opened libraries around the kingdom.

He created a single code of lawsfor the whole empire.

Actually tried to make thingsbetter for the serfs andtradespeople.

The chase

Exhalations

Renaissance

There was three social classes;Patricians, Equites, andPlebeians.

The family was ruled by the father, who hadcomplete authority over his wife, children andslaves.

Senate the main law and policymaking body in Rome.

Worshiped many gods and spirits.

C.E.

Latin

Gladiator

Germanic People

Barbarian

Alfred the Great

Anglosaxons were farmers and men andwomen shared the hard work of agriculturebetween them.

Anglosaxons preserved their stories by pastingit on to each person. One would tell the otherand it kept going like that.

The celts had to relocate to Wales, Cornwell, andScotland and across the sea to Ireland becausethey were driven out.

Celtic Peoples

Epic

Prosperous

They are farmers but loved to make war.

One of the Germanic tribes that overranthe Roman Empire in the 5thcentury .

Conquered most of Gaul (France)

"Frank" meant free.

Had social classes. Either reallyrich or incredibly poor.

Wergild

Arson

Betrothal

Plague

Prodigies, portents

Social Class

The vikings were any of the Scandinavianpeople who raided the coasts of Europe fromthe 8th to the 11th centuries.

Most were farmers and fishers. Thereare also highly skilled workers andsmiths.

The vikings were everywhere andattacked to get what theywanted.

Viking age 8001100 (1250 years)

Viking women has many rights under the law.Women could divorce their husbands and couldown property.

Vikings did all this because theywanted glory/fame and needed tosurvive.

Fjord

Skald

Thing