The Early Middle Ages: New ways of life developed in Europe Objective: To review the factors that led to The Dark Ages and how “order” was maintained.

List 3 Factors that led to the Dark Ages: 1. 2. 3. Use classroom resource Text to complete: List 3 Factors that led to the Dark Ages: 1. 2. 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?

List 3 Factors that led to the Dark Ages: Use classroom resource Text to complete: List 3 Factors that led to the Dark Ages: 1. collapse of trade and towns 2. decentralization of government (personal ties)-Church replaces 3. Loss of literacy & common language Of these 3 which is the strongest institution? Church 3. What unified all Europeans? 4. Who started Monasteries? 5. What occurred in Monasteries? Whose idea to convert? What does the term church mean?

Monasteries = self sufficient Both men & women follow the 3 fold rule of poverty, __________ & __________. These = Benedict’s Rules: 1. Let the Abbot make no distinction of persons in the monastery, let not one be loved more than another, save such as be found to excel in obedience or good works.

2. Whenever any weight matters have to be transacted in the monastery, let the abbot call together all the community…after hearing the advice of the brethren let him consider it in his own mind and then do what he shall judge most expedient. 3. All guests who come shall be received as if they were Christ. Own words?

Why would Benedict include these rules? 1. 2 3 Who is Gregory the first? What did he want to do?

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.”