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- Descendant of two aristocratic families, became Lord Byron at age 7inherited wealth but spent it all; money problems as an adultAfter university, toured Spain and Portugal. >>book...: great success: “awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
- In Don Juan, Byron goes against traditional role of epic: celebrating ...
- In ..., Wordsworth published his long poem The Excursion. It celebrates order, discipline, and duty, "this... Realm" (Britain) and its "glorious destiny" in world history.This work offended...: Mary wrote in her journal that Wordsworth was "a slave".
- Wordsworth sent away to school in the ...: spent much of his childhood walking in the woods and mountains.
- ________________ ____ _________, a Viking exiled from Iceland, traveled even farther west and discovered _____________________ in __________. A Viking site has also been found in __________________________ in North America
- The Viking Raids and settlements also had important _________________ repercussions. The inability of royal authorities to stem these incursions caused local populations to turn instead to local _________________________ for protection. AS a result, the landed aristocrats not only increased their strength and prestige but also assumed even more of the functions of local government that had previously belonged to the ____________; over time the developments led to a new _________________ and ______________________ order.
- By __________, groups or Norsemen had settles in _________________, and the Danes occupied an area known as the ______________________ in northwestern _________________ by __________. Agreeing to accept Christianity, the Danes were eventually assimilated into a larger ___________________________kingdom
- Beginning in _________, the ruler of the western Frankish lands gave one band of Vikings land at the moth of the _______________ River, forming a section of France that ultimately came to be known as ________________________.
- The Vikings wee also daring explorers. After ____________, they sailed westward in the long ships across the North Atlantic Ocean, reaching _________________ in 874
- Danes attacked eastern ________________, ___________________, and the ___________________ an navigated rives to enter western ________________ lands
- By far the most devastating and far-reaching attacks came from the Northmen of Norsemen of ___________________________, also known as the ________________. Why they began to move is unclear, and there are myriad hypotheses for their migration
- Two features of their society help explain their accomplishments: First of all, they were ______________. Second, they were superb __________________________ and ________________. Their ships' shallow ____________ enabled them to sail up European rivers and attack places at some distance inland
- The Magyars were finally crushed at the battle of _______________________ in Germany in __________. At the end of the tenth century, they were converted to Christianity and settled down to establish the kingdom of ________________
- In the ninth and tenth centuries, western Europe was beset by a wave of invasions by several non-Christian peoples- one old enemy, the Muslims, and two new ones, the _____________ and the ________________
- Charles the Bald obtained the western _________________ lands, which formed the core of the eventual kingdom of ___________
- Because there were different groups of Scandinavians, Viking expansion varied a great deal. Norwegian Vikings moved into ________________ and western ___________________
- Lothar received the title of emperor and a "Middle Kingdom" extending form the _______________sea to the ________________________ sea.
- The __________________ were a people from ____________ who moved into eastern and central _______________ by the end of the ninth century. They established themselves on the plains of _____________________ and from there made raids into western Europe.
- Swedish Vikings dominated the _______________ Sea and progressed into _________________ areas in the east and northwestern ____________
- The Carolingian empire began to disintegrate soon after ________________________'s death. He was succeeded by his son ________ ____ _________, who was not a strong ruler and died in __________. After his death, the three surviving brothers signed the Treaty of ____________, which divided the Carolingian empire into three divisions