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Due to multiple invasion and poor leaders, the Roman Empire falls and new leadership and government is established.
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The Franks took over and re-stabilized the society and population of what was left of the Roman empire.
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The kingdom divided between Charles the Great and his brother Carloman.
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Carloman dies in 771 and Charlemange became king. He conquered many countries like Italy, Spain, and Hungary.
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The Christians declared a holy war on the Muslims and won, claiming Jerusalem as a Christian city.
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Richard the Lion Hearted and Saladin, the two leaders of the Christians and the Muslims, had so much respect for each other that they came to a truce and split Jerusalem in half.
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2 groups of thousands of children were sent back home after traveling across the holy land to see the pope. Many died on the way there and back, so many see this as a tragedy, however it did restore faith in the church.
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Around this time, just recently after the children's crusade, Pope Innocent III was getting very frustrated and angry at the people because he felt that he wasn't being heard. So he announced that he would excommunicate anyone that didn't listen to him.
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When Charlemange came to the aid of Pope Leo III, he was unexpectedly crowned emperor.
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Around 906 the Christians and the Muslims were fighting, and the Christians seemed to have supposedly found the sword that "pierced Jesus"
