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The Eastern Roman Empire fell in 476 CE -
Charlemagne was the ruler of a vast territory that later came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. -
The first crusade is a series of religious wars. -
he Magna Carta is a document guaranteeing English political liberties. -
The Great Famine, began in 1845 when a fungus-like organism called Phytophthora infestans spread rapidly throughout Ireland. The infestation ruined up to one-half of the potato crop that year, and about three-quarters of the crop over the next seven years. -
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. -
The great schism is the resulting split divided the European Christian church into two major branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox faiths.