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This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom
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battle of milvian bridge
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The Empire had large numbers of trained, supplied, and disciplined soldiers, it had a comprehensive civil administration based in thriving cities with effective control over public finances, and it maintained extreme differences of wealth and status including slavery on a large scale
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adopt christianity
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it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
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in the 14th century and killed an estimated 25 million people
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Decisive Frankish victory, withdrawal of the Umayyad army
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He is well known as an author and scholar
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sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia
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The empire grew out of East Francia, a primary division of the Frankish Empire, and explicitly proclaimed itself the continuation of the Western Roman Empire
