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=**Charlemagne Unites Germanic Kingdoms**=
 * Bold:**
 * Middle Ages: The medival period right after the Roman empire that spanned from 500 to 1500.**
 * Franks: The Germanic people that held the power in Gual.**
 * Monasteries: Religious communities built by the church.** **In monasteries, men called monks gave up they're private life and devoted their lives to serving God.**
 * Secular: Worldly powerful and involved in politics.**
 * Carolingian Dynasty: The family that would rule the Franks from 751 to 987.**
 * Charlemagne: He ruled after Carloman's death, he is also known as Charles the Great.**
 * Key People:**
 * Charlemagne**
 * Carloman**
 * Ideas/Events:**
 * INVASIONS OF WESTERN EUROPE:**
 * Wher Germanic invaders overran one half of the Roman empire it caused disruption of trade, downfall of cites, and population shifts.
 * The Germanics couldn't read or write.
 * The Germanics losted a common language, the usual latine was no longer understood.


 * GERMANIC KINGDOMS EMERGE:**
 * In the time of 400 to 600 the church provided oder and security.
 * Family ties and personal loyalty, rather than citizenship in a public state, held Germanic society together.
 * Germanic warriors felt no obligation to obey a king that they didn't even know.
 * In the formerly Roman owned Gual, the Germanic Franks ran things.
 * Clovis had become a Christan, then teamed up with the Franks.


 * GERMANS ADOPT CHRISTIANITY:**
 * By 600 The church witht he hlp of the Franks had converted many Germanic people.
 * Missionaries tryied very hard to spread Christianity, by taking dengerous trips.
 * In monasteries, men called monks gave up they're private life and devoted their lives to serving God.
 * Around 520 an Italian man named Benedict began writing a book that labled strict yet practical laws for the monasteries.
 * In 590 a man named Gregory became a pope, he broadened the authority of the Papacy, or Pope's office.
 * The idea of a churchily kingdom ruled by a pope would be the central theme for the middle ages.


 * AN EMPIRE EVOLVES:**
 * The Franks first christan king Clovis dies in 511.
 * Charles the Great extended the Franks' reign to the North, South, and East. He also defeated Muslim raiders from Spain.
 * After Charles the Great's death, he pushed power to his son, Pepin the Short.
 * Pepin cooperated witht the pope of teh time and agreed to fight the Lombards.
 * Later after the battle, Pepin was crowned by the pope "king by the grace of god".
 * Pepin being king started the Carolingian Dynasty.


 * CHARLEMAGNE BECOMES EMPEROR:**
 * Pepin the Short died in 768, he greatly strerngthened the Frankish kingdom.
 * After Pepin's death two brothers took over named Carolman and Charles.
 * In 771 Carloman died.
 * Charles teh Great built an empire greater than anything know since Roman Empires.
 * Charles the Grat spead Christianity, through his conquests.
 * By 800 Charlemagne's empire was larger than the Byzantine empire.
 * Pope Leo III crowned Charles the emperor of Rome.
 * Charlemagne limited the power of nobels.
 * Charles died in 814 and he crowned his only surviving son Louis the Pious emperor.
 * He was an ineffective ruler.
 * Louis left his three sons, one of them to be king. Lothair, Charles the Bald, and Louis the German.
 * The brothers fought for power for years, until 843 they signed a treaty, The Treaty of Verdun.
 * The treaty split the empire into three different kingdoms.
 * As a result the Carolingian kings lost power.