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He also declares wife Theodora empress.
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He also brought feudalism and culture from France to England.
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The Crusaders were armies of Christians from all over Europe who marched to the Holy Land to regain lands captured by the Turks. The First Crusaders took the city of Jerusalem but paid a very heavy price in lives.
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This Crusade is generally considered to have been a failure.
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This was one of the more successful Crusade. In it King Richard the Lion-Hearted obtained certain privileges for Christians from the Turkish ruler, Saladin
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In this Crusade the original purpose of the Crusades was abandoned, and the Crusaders burned and sacked many cities and villages on their route. They never reached the Holy Land.
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The Magna Carta gave some basic rights to the people and also said that the king was not above the law.
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Acre was the last Christian city in the Near East, was lost to the Turks.
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England and France struggle for dominance of Western Europe
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It was estimated that one out of every five people in England died. Spread by fleas which infested a huge rat population, the disease is characterized by the victim turning dark purple in the last hours of life due to respiratory failure, hence the name, black plague. Killing most of Europes population. An estimated 20% - 40% of the population is thought to have perished within the first year
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
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Calais is the only English possession on Continental Europe.
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Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire.
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