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Roman Emperor who started the change toward Christianity.
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Constantine won the battle and started on the path that led him to end the Tetrarchy and become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. Maxentius drowned in the Tiber during the battle.
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A council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom. Without it religon would be much less organized today.
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The king of the Visigoths.
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Germanic soldier who became the 1st king of Italy. His reign marked the end of the Western Roman Empire.
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First to unite Frankish tribes and make them follow one king.
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Civil wars, invasions, disease, religious change, all lead to the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Wife of Justinian most powerful Roman empress in all history.
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Cathedral built by Justinian in an attempt to remind the world of Rome's once greatness.
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A pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire including Constantinople. Believed to have killed about 5,000 people per day. About 40% of people in the empire died. Would have changed a lot if it hadn't happened. Those people would have lived and married and had descendants as well as the people who died from the Black Death in the 14th century
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Benedict of Nursia founded 12 monetsaries
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Saint Bede or Venerable Bede was an english monk. Made doctor of the church
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Battle between Franks and Muslims. Franks were victorious saving the Roman Empire for Christianity.
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Crowned the Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.
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Defeated Muslims at the Battle of Tours even though he was outnumbered and out trained. This lead to the spreading of Christianity in the Roman Empire
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First English king to find a way to stop the Vikings. Going farther it could have saved the fate of the known world. What if we had all turned out like Vikings?
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Viking leader.
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The empire grew out of East Francia, a primary division of the Frankish Empire. The last Holy Roman Emperor was Francis II, who abdicated and dissolved the Empire in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Sought to revive Rome's greatness and reconquer the western half of the empire during his reign
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Began when overpopulation forced Vikings to relocate. They realized that you could easily plunder northern cities as there was no pirates. If the Viking raids had not happened then the Roman Empire people wouldn't have had to live in fear and future people would have been different. The mix of cultures would have changed.
