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  The early Middle Ages began in 600 CE
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  The Arabs attempt to conquer Constantinople but fail.
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  German Emperor Henry III arrives in Italy and names a German monastic reformer as pope.
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  Muslims recapture Jerusalem, and the Third Crusade is ordered.
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  The crusaders of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople.
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  Henry VIII succeeds his father, Henry VII, for the English crown.
