HIST&126 week 8

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· Due Wednesday by 11:59pm

· Points 20

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Provide comprehensive responses to each assignment below. Please number your assignments accordingly. Make sure to adhere to minimum counts, and use your own words--do not quote verbatim from the textbook or any other source.

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1. From Chapter Fourteen, use a minimum of 200 words to address the following:

· Describe the ways that the Frankish rulers Pepin the Short and Charlemagne used the Catholic Church to promote and protect their political authority.

· How did they manipulate the church, and incorporated it into their governments?

· How did this promote the authority of the two kings, but also help them to expand the geographic boundaries of their states?

· What was the particular relationship between these rulers and the popes?

2. From Chapter Fourteen, use a minimum of 200 words to address the following:

· What was feudalism and how it was organized? How was hierarchy central to the feudal system?

· What was the role of the king in relation to that of the nobility?

· How did the two sides, king and nobles, interact according to the rules of feudalism, and to what extent did it promote decentralized governments?

· What was the relationship between feudalism and the organization of the state?