Ace the Test
Pope - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head of church, advised by Cardinals
Cardinals - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔advised Pope, controlled archbishops. chose
new Pope from Cardinals
Archbishops - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Controlled archdiocese and bishops
Bishops - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Controlled "diocese" in larger cities or provinces
made of many parishes
Abbots - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In charge of monasteries and local parishes
Priests - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Local church or parish; led religious services
(weddings, baptisms, and funerals), cared for sick
, Monks - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lived in monasteries; "hard" or physical labor to
support their communities, occasionally preached; "low man" on hierarchy
totem pole, but crucial since they had the most contact with people
Lords and Vassals - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Vassals had certain duties to perform
for the Lord; all nobles were ultimately vassals of the King, and almost all
nobles were Knights
Period of the Middle Ages - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When the western Roman
Empire fell and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Rome) stood alone;
Byzantine Empire remained strong, preserving many of Rome's
achievements and traditions
Justinian - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Recovered much of the territory of the old
Roman Empire; Autocrat (had complete authority) with help of Theodora;
Created huge Christian empire
Byzantine Empire - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Controlled originally by Constantine,
who renamed Byzantium to Constantinople; wealthy empire that produced
gold, silk, grain, olives and wine
Justinian's Code - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Organized all laws of ancient Rome;
laws were fairer to women (could own property & raise their own children