Humans have been domesticating animals for over ten thousand years. Sheep, pigs, cattle, dogs, and other species, have shared millennia of history …
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Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
Charlemagne or Charles the Great, ruled over a vast Western European Empire. He and his sons would instigate a revival of art and learning during one of the darkest periods of European history.
Frankish King and Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne initiated a cultural and artistic flowering known as the Carolingian Renaissance. Learn more about …
Let’s take a glimpse at the Carolingian empire of Charlemagne’s sons and grandsons after his death.
The crowning of Charlemagne as the emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III on Christmas in 800 marked the entry into a new period for Western Europe. …
After the Migration Period that destroyed the Western Roman Empire, most of the newly formed Germanic states collapsed very fast. But not in France, …