Exercises on the Carolingian Empire

The Carolingian Empire settled with the kingdom founded by which Germanic people:

A) vandals

B) francs

C) Ostrogoths

D) Visigoths

E) Saxons

The Carolingian dynasty was replaced by which dynasty:

A) Merovingian

B) Bourbon

C) Capetingia

D) Valois

E) Habsburg

Who was the great emperor of the Carolingians:

A) Cucumber the Short

B) Carlos Martel

C) Louis the Pious

D) Charlemagne

E) Carloman

First Frankish king to convert to Christianity:

A) Childeric I

B) Charlemagne

C) Cucumber the Short

D) Carloman

E) Clovis I

Who were the “useless kings” in the context of the rise of the Carolingian Empire, as quoted by historian Jacques Le Goff:

A) Frankish kings who did not like to attend Catholic Church events.

B) Carolingian kings who refused to join the army in times of war.

C) Carolingian kings who could not produce heirs to the throne.

D) unmarried Capetian kings.

E) Merovingian kings who did not like to rule, delegating the function to the head of the palace.

Germanic people who attacked the lands of the Catholic Church in the Italian peninsula and were defeated by Charlemagne:

A) Saxons

B) alamanians

C) vandals

D) Lombards

E) francs

City transformed into the capital of the Carolingian Empire by Charlemagne under the justification of transforming it into the “new Rome”:

A) Aachen

B) Paris

C) Bordeaux

D) Marseille

E) Vienna

Regarding the reign of Charlemagne, select the INCORRECT alternative:

A) attempted legal unification in his kingdom.

B) encouraged barter in commercial transactions.

C) encouraged monasteries to follow the principles of St. Benedict.

D) promoted numerous military campaigns.

E) broke off relations with the Church of Rome, allied with the Church of Constantinople.

Read the snippet:

“However, on Wednesday, the pontiff (Hadrian I), accompanied by his dignitaries, both ecclesiastical and military, met with the king in the Church of St. for an interview. He urgently begged the king, reminded him and tried to persuade him with paternal affection to fulfill all the promises made by his father Pepin, of sacred memory, and by Charles himself and his brother Carloman and all the Frankish magnates to St. and to his vicar, the Pope (Stephen II) of holy memory, when he went to France to bestow the various cities and territories of that Italian province and entrust them to St. Peter and all his vicars, in perpetual possession [… ].”

(PEDRERO-SÁNCHEZ, Maria Guadalupe. History of the Middle Ages :texts and witnesses. São Paulo:Editora UNESP, 2000. p. 68-69)

Based on your reading, the snippet:

A) demonstrates Charlemagne's little interest in pleasing the Catholic Church.

B) highlights the closeness that Charlemagne had with the Catholic Church.

C) demonstrates the failure of the Carolingian expansion wars.

D) depicts Carolingian animosity towards the Holy See.

E) all of the above.

The Carolingian Empire began with the coronation of:

A) Cucumber the Short

B) Carlos Martel

C) Clovis I

D) Hugo Capeto

E) none of the above

Charlemagne's laws and orders were given through written documents known as:

A) leaflets

B) drop caps

C) decisions

D) placements

And) verdicts

Empire considered the heir to the Carolingian Empire:

A) Papal States

B) Kingdom of France

C) Holy Roman Empire

D) Kingdom of Castile

E) Kingdom of Aragon

Alternative B

The Carolingian Empire was made up of the Carolingian heirs of the Franks, a Germanic people who settled in the region of Gaul during the breakup of the Western Roman Empire.

Alternative C

The Capetian or Capetian dynasty replaced the Carolingian dynasty when it went into decline. It was inaugurated by Hugh Capet, crowned King of the Franks in 987.

Alternative D

Charlemagne was the great Carolingian Emperor, ruling from 768 to 814. He was responsible for a series of reforms for the Franks and also led numerous territorial conquests.

Alternative E

Clovis I was the son of Childeric I and was the first Frank to convert to Christianity. In 496, he was converted just before a battle with the Alemanni, and his conversion was crucial in popularizing Christianity among the Franks.

Alternative E

The useless kings or lazy kings, as the historian Jacques Le Goff has pointed out, were the Merovingians who handed over the power of the Kingdom of the Franks to the palace chiefs. They did not want to occupy themselves with the responsibilities of the kingdom.

Alternative D

Charles the Great attacked the Lombards after a request from the Holy See that this Germanic people be controlled. Charlemagne defeated the Lombard king Desiderius and was crowned king of the Lombards in a palace in Pavia.

Alternative A

Aachen, called Aachen by the Franks, was the city that Charlemagne tried to make the capital of his empire in order to make it a new Rome. He had a luxurious palace built in that city, which fell into decay after his death.

Alternative E

Charlemagne did not break off relations with the Church of Rome, on the contrary, during his reign, he insisted on maintaining ties with the Holy See of Rome as strongly as possible.

Alternative B

The passage shows the closeness of the Carolingians with the Catholic Church, as Charlemagne is being charged with promises made by his ancestors and himself to the Church.

Alternative A

The Carolingian Empire, and therefore the Carolingian dynasty, was formed when Pepin the Brief was crowned King of the Franks in 751. He relied on the support of the Catholic Church to establish himself thus. His coronation marked the end of the Merovingian dynasty.

Alternative B

Historian Jacques Le Goff mentions that Charlemagne's orders recorded on paper were known as capitularies. This document was a kind of decree issued specifically by the king. It could have general or localized amplitude.

Alternative C

It is considered that the successor of the Carolingians in Europe was the Holy Roman Empire, a great empire that was formed in the second half of the 10th century, when Otto I was crowned emperor. This empire developed in much of the lands occupied by the Carolingians.