STUDIES
1. On an outline map indicate the boundaries of the empire of Charlemagne, distinguishing his hereditary possessions from those which he acquired by conquest.
2. On an outline map indicate the boundaries of the empire of Otto the Great.
3. What events are connected with the following places: Soissons; Mersen; Whitby; Reims; Verdun; Canterbury; and Strassburg?
4. What is the historical importance of Augustine, Henry the Fowler, Pepin the Short, Charles Martel, Egbert, and Ethelbert?
5. Give dates for the following events: battle of Tours; crowning of Charlemagne as emperor; crowning of Otto the Great as emperor; deposition of Romulus Augustulus; Augustine's mission to England; and the Treaty of Verdun.
6. Explain the following expressions: "do-nothing kings"; missi dominici; Holy Roman Empire; and "Donation of Pepin."
7. Why was the extinction of the Ostrogothic kingdom a misfortune for Italy?
8. Why did Italy remain for so many centuries after the Lombard invasion merely "a geographical expression"?
9. What difference did it make whether Clovis became an Arian or a Catholic?
10. What events in the lives of Clovis and Pepin the Short contributed to the alliance between the Franks and the popes?
11. What provinces of the Roman Empire in the West were not included within the limits of Charlemagne's empire?
12. What countries of modern Europe are included within the limits of Charlemagne's empire?
13. Compare the missi dominici with the "eyes and ears" of Persian kings.
14. What is the origin of the word "emperor"? As a title distinguish it from that of "king."
15. Why has Lothair's kingdom north of the Alps been called the "strip of trouble"?
16. In what parts of the British Isles are Celtic languages still spoken?
17. How did the four English counties, Sussex, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, receive their names?
18. What was the importance of the Synod of Whitby?
19. Set forth the conditions which hindered, and those which favored, the fusion of Germans and Romans.