Define and describe the various external threats to peace in the Carolignian age and how they were addressed.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the Saracens, or Muslim invaders, their eventual defeat at Tours; the Magyars, who threatened the southeast, and came from the Russian steppes; their defeat in 955 by Otto I; and the depredations of the worst of the invaders, the Vikings from the north, who were temporarily beaten back by Alfred King of Wessex, and who continued to raid and conquest well into the eleventh century.
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A) nobles B) commoners C) priests D) foreigners
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).