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The loss of The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the misfortune of central political controls throughout Europe.
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Charlemagne the Great was a king of Franks. He became the Emperor of Rome in 800CE.
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Members of the upper nobles and their supporters departed on the Princes' Crusade in late summer 1096 and arrived at Constantinople between November and April the following year.
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The Magna Carta ("Great Charter") is a contract that guarantees English political freedoms. It was prepared in Runnymede, a meadow near the Thames, and signed by King John on June 15, 1215, under duress from his rebellious barons.
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The Great Famine, also known as the Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845–49, was a famine that struck Ireland between 1845 and 1849 when the potato harvest failed in consecutive years. Late blight, a disease that kills both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant, was to blame for the crop failures.
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From 1348 to 1350, the Black Death was a bubonic plague epidemic that swept over Afro-Eurasia. It was the worst epidemic in human history, killing 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, with a peak in Europe between 1347 and 1350.
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The East–West Schism was a rupture in communion between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church that occurred in the 11th century.