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The sack of 455 was the third of four ancient sacks of Rome; it was conducted by the Vandals, who were then at war with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus.
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The founding father of the Merovingian dynasty, assumed the throne at the tender age of 15 when his father Childeric, king of a Germanic tribe known as the Salian Franks, died.
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A Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and old Catholic churches. He is a patron saint of Europe.
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The battle of the highway of the Martyrs, was fought on october 10, 732 and was an Important battle during the umayyad invasion of gaul.
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English benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the kingdom of northumbria of the angles.
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An event during the saxon wars where the frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 saxons.
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The devastating viking attack on the church of St Cuthbert in 793 sent a shockwave through Europe. But a Christian community at Lindisfarne survived, and recorded the event on the famous Domesday stone.
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From the latin Carolus Magnus, numbered Charles I, was the king of the franks from 768, the king of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800. During the early middle ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe.
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Muhammad ibn Musa was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the libary of the house of Wisdom in Baghdad.
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Alfred the great was king of the west Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and king of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of king Ethelwulf of Wessex. His father died when he was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Ethelbald, Ethelred, Ethelberht, reigned in turn before him.
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An official commissioned by the Frankish king holy roman emperor to supervise the administration mainly of justice, in part of his dominions too remote for frequent personal visits.
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Was a persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. He also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.
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The battle of hastings was fought between the norman-French army of William and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson, beginning the norman conquest of England.
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Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of England and parts of wales completed in 1086 by order of king William the Conqueror.
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Traditionally known by his latinized name Avenzoar, was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet. He was born at Seville in medieval Andalusia, was a contemporary of Averroes and Ibn Tufail, and was the most well-regarded physician of his era.
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A royal charter of rights agreed to by king John of England at runnymede, near Windsor.
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Founder and first great Khan of the Mongol empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia.
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Was a prince and founder of the Mali Empire. The Malian ruler Mansa Musa, who made a pilgrimage to Mecca, was his geat-nephew.
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Grandson or the grandnephew of sundiate, the founder of his dynasty, came to the throne in 1307. In the 17th year of his reign (1324), he set out on his famous pilgrimage to mecca in addition, mansa musa had a baggage train of 80 camels, each carrying 300 pounds of gold.
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Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through asia along the silk road between 1271 and 1295
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Jani Beg also called Djanibek Khan was a Khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357, succeeding his father Oz Beg Khan.
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Christine de Pizan or Pisan, born Cristina da Pizzona, was a poet and author at the court of king Charles Vl of France and several French dukes. Venetian by birth, Christine served as a court writer in medieval France after the death of her husband.
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Was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe.
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An english poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages, he is best known for the Canterbury tales. He has been called the father of english literature or alternatively the father of english poetry.
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Joan of arc, nicknamed the maid of Orleans or maid of Lorraine is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the hundred years war and was canonized as a Catholic saint.
