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The fall of Western Roman Empire is considered as the beginning of the Middle Ages. The last Roman emperor was Julius Nepos who was nominated by Eastern Emperor Zeno.
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Medieval comes form the latin words med (meaning middle) and eval (meaning age).
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Clovis, the sturdy Frank, wrought marvellous changes in Gaul. His marriage to the Christian princess Clotilde was followed by the conversion of himself and, gradually, that of his people. With a well-disciplined army he pulled down and swept away the last pillars of Roman power out of Gaul. Guizot gives a graphic account of the transition of the Franks, during two hundred and fifty years, from being isolated wandering tribes, each constantly warring against the other, to a well-ordered C
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The holy city of jeruslam is taken by the tukes and hundreds of christians are slaughterd
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It was part of the fighting witch was to establish william of Normady the conqueror.
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no one of the clergy shall receive the investiture with a bishopric or abbey or church from the hand of an emperor or king or of any lay person, male or female.
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the first great council was held at Piacenza.
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Pope urban the second launches the first crusade
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Also named the holy wars the crsades took place because the churches of different religions wanted to spread their religion.
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Battle between Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard cities allied with Milan. Frederick had called for German aid in his struggle in Italy, and the army that had responded had reached Como. The Emperor was based at Pavia, with Milan lying on a direct line between the two places.
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The magna carta was origanally done in latin.
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it was in the regin of the tudor monarchs the English parliment was created
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The hundred years' war was a war fought between England and France. Because the king of England claimed to be the ruler of France. All of the battles of the war took place in France, and the French won the war.
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Also known as the "Black Death" this plague wiped out most middle Europeans and is also made into kids games like "ring around the rosies".
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the black death is also known as black plauge in fact that is where the game/song ring around the rosies came from.
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the black death spread from eruope killing hundreds and thousands of people.
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A plague is a cancer or disease that spreads faster and kills quicker than any ordinary cancer/disease.
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this was a split in the eastern and western christion churches
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joan of arc was triald and burned alive because she was charged with hersey
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Slang in medieval times
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On Christmas Day, 800 CE, he was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III. This was unexpected at the time but was designed to send the message that the church stands above the state because only the pope has the authority to crown someone as temporal leader of Christendom.
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