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Summary: A text of old Norse poems. In these poems, Snorri Sturlson (Author) says that man lost the name if God because he is saying that people forgot about the heavenly Christian god. the Character Thor reflects for warlike and violent Germanic customs were, because the germanic Tribal people adored Thor
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Summary: Tacitus wrote a book talking about the way of life of the German people and compared it to the Romans. He wrote this to criticize Roman society, by making them feel bad for the germans.
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Summary: a proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire. It was made by Emperor Constantine
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Summary: Emperor Constantine called a council to Nicea to settle some disagreements on belief among the early Christians
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Summary: This established Constantinople as the new Eastern Roman Empire
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Summary: The city (Rome) was attacked by the Visigoths led by King Alaric.
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Summary: was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs. He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty
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Summary: The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I , the son of Merovech, leader of the Salian Franks, but it was his famous son Clovis I who united all of Gaul under Merovingian rule.
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Summary: was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code compiled around 500 AD by the first Frankish King, Clovis. There was many laws protecting women, especially women who were with child.
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Summary: Family that initially ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex, from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex until the unification of the Kingdoms of England. The descendants of Alfred the Great (871 - 899) down to Edward the Confessor in 1066
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Summary: During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire
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Summary: Fans of the chariot racing who usually hated each other, united against Justinian in a revolt. Justin wanted to leave but his wife, Theodora, would not allow him to flee. The destruction from these riots allowed the Haga Sophia to be built as a Christian church, and then converted into a Muslim mosque.
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Summary: Traveled to England to protect the local towns, but hey didn't get paid, so they destroyed lands and took the towns instead of their pay.
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Summary: Gregory was a bishop who recorded the history of the Merovingian Franks. The fact that he was a historian who was also a bishop is important because he is biased towards the Church. Also, the king at the time, Clovis, was often violent and cruel, but in the histories, it is excused because Clovis is a Christian.
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Summary: a heroic narrative, concerning the deeds if a Scandanavian prince. The date of Beowulf is important to note because this was during the start of Christianity so the author of Beowulf had to fuse Christian ideals with the Norse mythology.
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Summary: Muhammad migrated to Medina, where he had many followers who agreed to help and assist him.
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Summary: When the Muslims took control of the city after being away from it for 8 years.
To Rally his outnumbered forces, Muhammed called out the statement of Jihad, which is if you die fighting, you will go to paradise -
Upon the death of Muhammed, Islam split into two branches, the Sunni and Shia
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Summary: he second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. This caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty
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Summary: is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock is now one of the oldest works of Islamic architecture.
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Summary: At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe.
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Summary: English historian, father figure of English History. Also propaganda for Christianity. Roman Catholic conversions with hopes of connections to Rome.
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Summary: The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Abbasid dynasty descended from Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, from whom the dynasty takes its name
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Summary: The Father of Charlemagne
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Summary: King of the Franks became a Roman Emperor, with a vast swath of Europe under his rule.
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Summary: a Frankish noble family. The Carolingian dynasty reached its peak with the crowning of Charlemagne as the first emperor in the west in over three centuries
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Summary: (849-899) Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England
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Summary: break between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches
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Summary: 11th century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror.
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Summary: The Seljuqs established both the Seljuk Empire and Sultanate of Rum, which at their heights stretched from Anatolia through Iran and were targets of the First Crusade.
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Summary: Started crusades "If you go on the crusade and die you go to heaven"
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Summary: the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Lands, called by Pope Urban II in 1095. The crusaders acted very harshly to those that they conquered , usually massacring them all
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Summary: The Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. The campaign was largely successful, capturing the important cities of Acre and Jaffa, and reversing most of Saladin's conquests, but it failed to capture Jerusalem
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Summary: Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire.
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Summary: Disastrous Crusade by European Christians to expel Muslims from the Holy Land said to have taken place in 1212. many historians came to believe that they were not (or not primarily) children but multiple bands of "wandering poor" in Germany and France,
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Summary: was an attempt by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt.
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Summary: attempt to regain Jerusalem. It began seven years after the failure of the Fifth Crusade and involved very little actual fighting
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Summary: crusade launched by Louis IX of France against the city of Tunis in 1270. The crusade is considered a failure after Louis died shortly after arriving on the shores of Tunisia, with his disease-ridden army dispersing back to Europe shortly afterwards.
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Summary: commonly considered to be the last major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land. The Ninth Crusade saw several impressive victories for Edward over Baibars. Ultimately the Crusade did not so much fail as withdraw, since Edward had pressing concerns at home and felt unable to resolve the internal conflicts within the remnant Outremer territories.
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Summary: His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj, or a Pilgrimage to Mecca, as all good Muslims want to do. But his traveling went on for about 29 years and he covered about 75,000 miles visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries
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Summary: capture of the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453. The Ottomans were commanded by 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II,