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The Early Middle Ages began with the fall of Rome.
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The Germanic warlord Odoacer overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and declared himself as the new king of Italy. -
Emperor Kameyama was the 90th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1260 through 1274.
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Kyoto was the capital of Japan for over a thousand years, from 794 CE to 1868 CE, when it was called Heian-kyo. The capital was moved to Kyoto from Nara to escape the influence of powerful Buddhist monasteries. The political capital was then moved from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1868, though Kyoto remains Japan's cultural capital.
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In 794 the Emperor Kammu moved the imperial capital from Nara to Heian-kyo, now known as Kyoto. This signified the beginning of the Heian period (794–1185CE). During this time, many of the foundations of Japan’s development were laid. Japanese society broke away from the strong influences of, and connections with China. Japanese art and culture began to flourish.
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Charlemagne was Crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome. -
William the conqueror led to the creation of France, England, and Germany. There were also crusades between the Christian army and Islamic Empire.
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A battle took place between the Norman Troops Commanded by the Duke of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon forces under King Harold Godwinson. -
Pope Urban II delivers the speech at the Council of Clermont, calling for the First Crusade. This speech urged Christians to take up arms and reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control.
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The Second Crusade, led by European kings like Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, ends in disappointment with failed attempts to recapture territories lost to the Muslims.
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The Genpei War was a national civil war[1] between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late Heian period of Japan. It resulted in the downfall of the Taira and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto no Yoritomo, who appointed himself as Shōgun in 1192, governing Japan as a military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura.
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The Kamakura shogunate was the feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333.
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Philip II of France, Richard I of England (The Lionheart) and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor lead the Third Crusade. They took back many territories from Saladin but failed to win back Jerusalem.
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Famines and Plagues killed millions of people. Poor people began to revolt against unfair laws and conditions. This was a period of civil unrest.
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Pope Innocent III declares the Fourth Crusade to take back Jerusalem.
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Started by a French child named Stephen of Cloyes. Tens of thousands of children gathered to march to the Holy Land. This ended in total disaster. None of the children made it to the Holy Land and many were never seen again. They were likely sold into slavery.
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The Magna Carta was signed in a meadow called Runnymede. -
Over the next several years there would be 5 more Crusades. None of them would be very successful in terms of gaining control of the Holy Land.
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kamikaze of 1274 and 1281, (1274, 1281), a pair of massive typhoons (tropical cyclones) that each wrecked a Mongol fleet attempting to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281.
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kamikaze of 1274 and 1281, (1274, 1281), a pair of massive typhoons (tropical cyclones) that each wrecked a Mongol fleet attempting to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281.
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The Ashikaga shogunate , also known as the Muromachi shogunate (室町幕府, Muromachi bakufu), was the feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573
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Johannes Gutenberg who is a German goldsmith, invented the first Moveable type Printing Press in Europe. -
King Henry VIII ruled England which involved the separation of the Church of England from the authority of the Pope in Rome.
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King Henry VIII initiated the process of starting the Church in England. -
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo period, refers to the period in Japanese history from 1603 to 1867/1868 when the Tokugawa clan ruled as a military government, or shogunate, from the capital of Edo (modern-day Tokyo).