The Early Middle Ages: New ways of life developed in Europe

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The Early Middle AgesNew ways of life developed
in Europe
Objective To review the factors that led to The
Dark Ages and how order was maintained.
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Use classroom resource Text to complete

• List 3 Factors that led to the Dark Ages
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• 3.
• Of these 3 which is the strongest institution?

3. What unified all Europeans? 4. Who started
Monasteries? 5. What occurred in Monasteries?

• Whose idea to convert?
• What does the term church
• mean?

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• Monasteries self sufficient
• Both men women follow the 3 fold rule of
  poverty, __________ __________.
• These Benedicts Rules
• 1. Let the Abbot make no distinction of persons
  in the monastery, let

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• 2. Whenever any weight matters have to be
  transacted in the monastery, let
• 3. All guests who come shall be received as if
  they were

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• Why would Benedict include these rules?
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• Who is Gregory the first? What did he want to do?

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Support or Refute

• Will Durant (historian) wrote
• Gregory the Great dominated the end of the 6th
  Century as Justinian had dominated the beginning
  and his effect on religion exceeded in this epoch
  only by that of Muhammad.