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Marked the end of the period during which Western Roman Emperors exercised sovereignty.
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Justinian the Great was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. He sought to retake the lost of western half of the classical civiliaztion.
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Muhammad was born in Mecca. He was the founder of Islam. Muslims consider him as the messager of God and the last prophet.
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Columbanus was an Irish missionary well known for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent. He spread the Franks a Celtic monastic rule.
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First Crusade was a military crowd by Western Christianity to save the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim win of the Levant, eventually resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem.
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Temujin was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire. It became the largest next empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the migrant tribes of northeast Asia.
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The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alamanni.
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Viking is used to refer to the explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who explored and settled in areas of Europe and Asia.
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Treaty of Verdun was a treaty between the three sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne, which seperated the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms. It ended the three year Carolingian Civil War.
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Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279. Tt succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty was aslo the first to use gun powder as well as the first compass.
