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The Black Death originated in China, was a bubonic plague that struck Europe and China. It killed so many people because they did not have any modern day medicines.
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The Great Famine was the first series of large scale crises in Europe, these crop failures lasted all the way until 1316
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The Magna Carta was a document that guaranteed English political liberties, it was drafted at Runnymede, this was a meadow by the River Thames, this document was signed by King John.
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The first crusade was a military camp by Western European forces to recapture and take back the city of Jerusalem and also the holy land which was in Muslim control. Which was conceived by pope Urban II.
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Charlemagne's prodigies range of activities which were during the first 30 years of his reign were prelude to what some contemporaries, and later down the line the observes this as the culminating event of his reign
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In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by a Germanic leader named Odoacer, he became the first barbarian to ever rule in Rome.
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when there were two, and later three, rival popes, each with his own following, his own Sacred College of Cardinals, and his own administrative offices.