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Rome had to much power so Rome had no control of the empire.Rome was an empire for many years. Some compare ancient Rome's problems with Britain's problems and America's problems.
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October 10, 732 AD marks the conclusion of the Battle of Tours, arguably one of the most decisive battles in all of history.
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Carolingian Renaissance stands out as a period of intellectual and cultural revival in Europe occurring from the late eighth century
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The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem.
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Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date.
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He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time.
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Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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The only authentic life of Benedict of Nursia is that contained in the second book of St. Gregory's.
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In 986, Bjarni Herjolfsson, experimented navigator and adventurer, left Norway to reach Iceland close to the winter. He found that his father had left as part of a fleet led by Erik the Red to colonize a huge land situated to the West and attractively named "Greenland."
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Corupus Iurus Civilis or the Justinian Code, was the result of Emperor Justinian's desire that existing Roman law be collected into a simple and clear system of laws, or "code." Tribonian, a legal minister under Justinian, lead a group of scholars in a 14-month effort to codify existing Roman law.
