The Early Middle Ages

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The Early Middle Ages by Mind Map: The Early Middle Ages

1. The Franks

1.1. The Franks were a big group of Germanic Tribes that roamed anywhere where they could take over land. Some Franks raid roman territory like part of Gaul. Later on the vikings ruled all of Northern Gaul.

1.2. The Merovingians

1.2.1. The Merovingians ruled "The Franks" for almost 300 years. Theyre territory was was a large part of ancient Gaul. They were also a large family. When Clovis the father of his family died his land was divided amongst his childeren. His family was usually known for murders amongst each other.

1.3. Laws

1.3.1. The Salic Code was th e law that the Franks followed and that was if someone murdered someone in your family. The family of the victim would choose for the killer to die or to pay a fee to the family. As you can see the Salic Code is very different than the laws we have now.

2. Charlamagne

2.1. Charlamagne was the king of "The Franks". He founded Frankish One of the amazing things that Charlamagne did was that he united Western and Eastern Europe. Charlamagne was the king of "The Franks". He founded Frankish One of the amazing things that Charlamagne did was that he united Western and Eastern Europe.

3. Religion

3.1. Christianity

3.1.1. Christianity is the world largest religion with approximatley over 2.4 billion people that believe in it. When Christianity began it started many places over the world such as Europe,Egypt,India and Syria. Then when Christianity got big it ended up being the official religion of the Roman Empire.

3.1.2. Jesus

3.1.2.1. Jesus was a god to the Christians because the story of Jesus begins with him being sent by god to fix most of earths problems.

3.1.3. The Bible

3.1.3.1. The Bible is a religous book with sacred texts, they"re are many bibles in the world there is not just one Bible.

3.2. Islam

3.2.1. Islam is a religion where people that believe in god think that god chose them to come to earth and worship him/her. Most of the Islamic culture with one god Allah rules everything and that everyone is to respect him/her.

3.2.2. Prophet Muhammed

3.2.2.1. he is a spiritual god just like Jesus but Prophet Muhammad is only worshiped in the Islamic religion. He was a special person to the people of Islam.

3.2.3. The Quran

3.2.3.1. The Quran is a religous book just like the bible but for the people that follow the Islam religion. Many people buy Qurans if they want.

3.3. Judaisim

3.3.1. Is a religion of people that wanna follow it . Judaisim has been around the 5th and 6th century in Isreal. The religion of Judaisim spreaded rapidly across the world by Jewish people moving everywhere and telling everyone.

3.3.2. Hebrew Bible is the same thing as all bibles but this bible i not usually read very often. So it is kind of different.

3.3.3. Gods

3.3.3.1. There are many gods in the Judaism culter. So that is one of the differences made with the Gods of Judaism.

4. The Roman Empire

4.1. Th Roman Empire started off with a mythical storie called Romulas and Remus but it really started off with many random people from everywhere started to move onto a peice of land and theyre were so many people theyre that they built a civalization. The Romans were also the first pe to build trading roots just like the ones we have to day.

4.2. Gladiators

4.2.1. Gladiators were big strong worriors that defended and conqured land. So that people could be safe and they would be able to live in different places. Gladiators were als important because they would help make highways for people to trade.

5. Vikings

5.1. Vikings were a group of scandanavian worriors that would go to conquer land and to defend from enemy attacks .

5.2. The Vikings soon after crashed and burned once the started to work for rulers to protect theyre land or they would fight over the same land.

5.3. A Vikings Everyday Life

5.3.1. Vikings were usually farmers or fisherman when they are not fighting. They also lived near water so they could either water theyre fruits or vegetables and they could catch theyre fish.