Warm-up
Your cell phone, plumbing, home electricity, and car suddenly stop working. Not only for you, but for of the U.S. What do you think might happen to society and the country around you?

Prayer

Objectives

• Identify the Middle Ages
• Examine what Clovis shows us about MA.
• Analyze a primary source text on Clovis.

Middle Ages

• The 1,000 year period after the collapse of Rome.
• 476 A.D. - 1453 A.D. 

Early Middle Ages

• First few hundred years after empire fell.
• German tribes set up small kingdoms in former Roman provinces.
• Imperial laws, monuments, roads, and public services declined.
• Far less learning, writing, and reading in Europe!

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Europe in Early Middle Ages

• Former provinces often ruled by chief and his warriors.
• They set up their own small, independent kingdoms.
• Warriors pledged loyalty to their chief (or king) and were given plunder.

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Clovis

• In 457 he became king of the Salian Franks.
• Launched a campaign of conquest to become king of ALL Franks.
• One by one he killed the other Frankish kings.
• He also fought other tribes and killed almost all of his male family.
• Why? 

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An offer he can't Refuse

• Clovis wasn't just a brutal warrior...
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX2VzsB25s