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The sack of 455 was the third of four ancient sacks of Rome; it was conducted by the Vandals, who were then at war with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus The raid was triggered by the assassination of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III, who had previously pledged his daughter Eudocia to the son of the Vandal King Genseric as part of a peace treaty
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founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Lazio, Italy (about 65 kilometres (40 mi) to the east of Rome) main achievement, his "Rule of Saint Benedict", contains a set of rules for his monks to follow
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Decisive Frankish victory charles martet The reason of the war was the riches of the Abbey of Saint Martin of Tours The war stopped Muslim armies from advancing farther into Western Europe
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He is a English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St Peter hes also the Patron Saint of scholars and historians. He was an historian, a scientist, and a teacher Hes most famous for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, one of our best-written sources for early English history.
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the founding father of the Merovingian Dynasty, assumed the throne at the tender age of 15 By the end of the 7th century the Frankish Realm had fallen into decay as the power of the Merovingian dynasty declined and local lords started to defy the royal throne
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a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential works in mathematics astronomy, and geography made important contributions to astronomy, also largely based on methods from India
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The Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons. This happened because of he "Bibble" people saying there stronger using the words of the bible in vain. Harold is the one who killed the saxons
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Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, was one of the first landing sites of the Vikings the holy community persevered on Lindisfarne, though the monastery was mostly abandoned
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this is a name given to the officials commissioned by the Frankish kings and emperors to supervise the administration of their dominions it was an official commissioned by the Frankish king
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king of the Franks and emperor of the West He founded the Holy Roman Empire, stimulated European economic and political life Charlemagne crowned his son Louis the Pious (778-840), king of Aquitaine, as co-emperor
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Hes a Persian polymath He was the first to describe smallpox and to differentiate it from measles. He purified alcohol and pioneered its use in medicine He was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another
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King of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and king of the Anglo Saxons from c. 886 to 899 He was diagnosed with Crohn's disease He was so great cause of things he did for example he made good laws and believed education was important
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The war happened betweeen he Norman-French army of William the Duke of Normandy and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson beginning the Norman conquest of England The Norman won the war King harold the second was killed bye an arrow in his eye and his forces were very badly damaged
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manuscript record of the "Great Survey" After the Norman invasion and conquest of England, the Domesday Book was commissioned by order of William The Conqueror the book recorded the transfers and possessions of lands After the conquest huge amounts of land in England changed hands and a record of these changes was needed to keep track
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He was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet
He was known for his emphasis on a more rational, empiric basis of medicine
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a prince and founder of the Mali Empire the first ruler of the Mali Empire in the 13th century C.E. He laid the foundation for a powerful and wealthy African empire
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A document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede, it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law Written by a group of barons to protect their rights and property against there king
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founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire decreed the adoption of the Uyghur script as the Mongol Empire's writing system practised meritocracy and encouraged religious tolerance in the Mongol Empire, unifying the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. Present-day Mongolians regard him as the founding father of Mongolia
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Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road spent more than two decades in the service of Kublai Khan, one of the greatest rulers in history who reigned over Mongolia for 34 years Polo’s way was paved by the pioneering efforts of his ancestors, especially his father, Niccolò, and his uncle, Maffeo
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French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin Chauliac stayed on, treating plague patients and documenting symptoms meticulously. He claimed to have been himself infected and survived the disease Galen's influence on Chauliac can clearly be seen in the latter's belief that surgeons should have a thorough understanding of anatomy. He wrote, "A surgeon who does not know his anatomy is like a blind man carving a log"
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Mūsā I's pious pilgrimage inspired him to commission two enormous mosques in Timbuktu and Gao He became the first Muslim ruler in West Africa to make the nearly four thousand mile journey to Mecca
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commanded a massive Crimean Tatar force that attacked the Crimean port city of Kaffa in 1343 he had no choice but to call off his siege Using the catapults designed to throw boulders and fireballs over the walls of fortified cities like Kaffa
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Shes a poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France and several French dukes She became a court writer in medieval France after the death of her husband She revised history by giving women a place in it and showed the elite women of her time how they could successfully navigate their way in a man's world
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an English poet and author best known for The Canterbury Tales best-known work. It is a collection of 24 stories told by a group of 30 pilgrims who travel from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Beckett
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She was a peasant girl believing that she was acting under divine guidance led the French army in a momentous victory at Orleans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years War
