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It was directed by the Vandals. They were at battle with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus.
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From the middle of the 5th century until 751 the Merovingian Dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks.
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He is a patron saint of Europe and a Christian saint venerated in multiple churches. The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches.
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St. Bede the Venerable, Anglo-Saxon scholar, student of history, and chronologist. St. Bede is most popular for his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ("Ecclesiastical History of the English People"), a source imperative to the historical backdrop of the change to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon clans.
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At the Battle of Tours close to Poitiers, France, Frankish pioneer Charles Martel, a Christian, overcomes a huge multitude of Spanish Moors, stopping the Muslim development into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim legislative head of Cordoba, was murdered in the battling, and the Moors withdrew from Gaul, never to return in such power.
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Acted as an inspector(s), they are never allowed to go to their home town, and appointed in pairs. Constantly would change places to avoid ties, reported directly to the king, and 1 from the church and one from laity.
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He was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, geography, and was appointed as the astronomer and head of the library of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad around 820 CE.
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Charlemagne supposedly requested the butcher of nearly 4,500 Saxons. He in the long run constrained the Saxons to change over to Christianity, and announced that any individual who didn't get submersed or follow other Christian conventions be killed.
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Vikings attack on the island of Lindisfarne (Holy Island) off the shore of what is now Northumberland.
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Charlemagne was healthy a large portion of his life until the most recent four years in his life. When he often suffered from fevers and acquired a limp he took advise from his counsel instead of a doctor. He hated doctors.
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Also known as Alfred the Great he was lord of the West Saxons. He was the most youthful child of King Æthelwulf of Wessex.
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He was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine, he also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.
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This battle changed the course of history as now the defeated king, King Harold II of England was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The King was defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror which establish Normans as rules. This brought about a cultural transformation.
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An exhaustive record of the degree, worth, proprietorship, and liabilities of land in England, made in 1086 by request of William I.
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He was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet. He was he most well-regarded physician of his era. He was traditionally known by his Latinized name Avenzoar.
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He was the first Great Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire, he rose to power by uniting Northeast Asia nomadic tribes. After his death, the Mongol Empire became the largest bordering empires in history.
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He was a ruler and originator of the Mali Empire. His great-nephew was Mansa Musa, the Malian ruler.
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The Magna Carta is signed by King John. It was a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede, a meadow by the River Thames, under pressure from his rebellious barons.
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He was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer. Between 1271 and 1295, he traveled through Asia along the Silk Road.
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He pilgrimage between 1324 and 1325 with 60,000 men including 12,000 slaves all wearing brocade and Persian silk. They each carried 4 pounds of gold bars, heralds dressed in silks, who bore gold staffs, organized horses, and handled bags.
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He was a French physician and surgeon. He wrote the Chirurgia Magna, a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin.
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He was an English poet and author and widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was also known as the "father of English literature" or "father of English poetry".
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Jani Beg directed an enormous Crimean Tatar power that assaulted the Crimean port city of Kaffa.
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She was a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France and several French dukes. After the death of her husband, Christine served as a court writer in medieval France.
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She was canonized as a Catholic saint. A heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. She was nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" or "Maid of Lorraine"
