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Through Barbarian kingdoms
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The Middle Ages are so called as the middle period between the decline of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. The early Middle Ages are often referred to as the Dark Ages. The Middle Ages are also referred to as the Medieval era.
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Through his skill as a leader and warrior, Clovis united the Frankish tribes under his leadership, defeated the last Roman governor in Gaul.
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The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
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Between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and about the year 1000, there existed in Europe a kind of “universal Catholic culture” it was sustained by the official and scholarly use of Latin, even in the face of vernacular languages that were developing throughout the territories of the former Empire.
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occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II. It took place at Senlac Hill, northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.
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An army of Normans and French led by Duke William II of Normandy
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A ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials. Whoever controlled lay investitute wielded the real power in naming bishops.
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Freeing the Holy Lands. 1st Crusade led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse and proclaimed by many wandering preachers, notably Peter the Hermit
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The Crusades were a series of religious expeditionary wars
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Crusaders prepared to attack Damascus. 2nd crusade led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and by King Louis VII of France
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Between the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, led by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the Lombard League.
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He returned to Germay, German kings continued with their attempsts to revive Charlemagne's empire.
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Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges.
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Legislative body that was originally assembled by Edward I of England to raise and collect taxes
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Fought between England and France. It lasted for 16 years.
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1400 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France and their various allies for control of the French throne.
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The Bubonic Plague was a disease that spread during the War,
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The Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417
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Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920.
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The church sought to influence both spirtual and political matters.
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The empire lasted for 29 years, Charlemagne was crowned in Rome.
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After the Death of Charlemagne Otto the Great followed his footsteps.
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They striked Poartland, England.
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He was a great statesman and a great conqueror, one of his first conquests being that of the Lombards.
