On December 25, 800, Charlemagne was crowned the first emperor of the revived Western Roman Empire. ... With Charlemagne's death in 814, the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire was soon to follow. Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious ruled the Carolingian Empire from 814 to 840. ... This divide greatly hurt the Carolingian Empire, as the German and French Kingdoms would start a constant struggle over territories from the Carolingian Empire. ... In conclusion, I think that the Carolingian Empire is the main reason Europe looks the way it does today. ...

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In 800 Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne the new Roman emperor which sanctified the kingdom. Charlemagne was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He worked to strengthen the empire. ... He englarged his Frank kingdom to become the Frankish Empire. ... He was crowned the Roman emperor of the new Holy Roman Empire, and relied on counts to help him. ...

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He spread religion throughout his empire effectively, but through political force. ... Will power shows the strength Charlemagne possessed in himself and in his empire. ... Charlemagne also incorporated education into the expansion of his empire. ... As a way to acknowledge Charlemagne's power and reinforce his relationship with the church, Pope Leo III crowned him as the first Holy Roman Emperor. ... Under his rule, the Frankish Empire changed to the Holy Roman Empire and was not split up into multiple kingdoms. ...

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If you specifically take a look at Ethiopia and Charlemagne's empire there is clear evidence that show these differences. ... For example " African kingdoms that arose in modern Sudan and Ethiopia in northeast Africa were heavily influenced by Egyptian culture".1 Egypt was largely influenced by Roman culture and the hellenistic ways of christianity would be introduced to Ethiopia through the trade they would do in the upper nile area. ... Another significance in Charlemagne's empire was that in 800 he was crowned in Rome by the Pope giving him the title of the holy Roman em...

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The ancient Roman Empire is divided into two parts, an Eastern and a Western, the Eastern remained subject to successors of Constantine, whose capital was at Byzantium. Byzantine is therefore employed to designate this Eastern survival of the ancient Roman Empire. ... Justinian the First marks the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. ... Everything seemed to falling apart but Charlemagne wanted to recreate the power, prestige and culture of western Roman empire. ... The economic infrastructure of the west had not been repaired, and the reconstruction of anythi...

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The Carolingian Empire was the second Frankish Empire, and united most of Western Europe under one ruler in the late 700's. ... It also trained teachers for schools throughout the empire. ... Charlemagne's political and military strength held such a presence in Europe that, at the turn of the ninth century, he was crowned emperor of the Romans, by Pope Leo III. ... This asset to the Carolingian Empire definitely improved Carolingian society, all thanks to the empire's beneficial ruler, Charlemagne. ... Charlemagne could most definitely be held accountable for the rise of the...

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~All of the following resulted from the repeated invasions of the Germanic tribes that led to the fall of the Roman Empire EXCEPT D-the establishment of a common language. ... -The Treaty of Verdun ended D-civil war in the empire established by Charlemagne. ... ~All of the following contributed to the decline of cities in what had been the Roman Empire EXCEPT-Viking invasions. ... -Western Europe was reunited for the first time after the fall of the Roman Empire under Charlemagne. ... -usurpation-to take something w/out permission -Middle Ages-midieval period -Franks-Germanic people -Mona...

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He got the ideas from the Romans and there great public works. ... Charlemagne made many conquests expanding the kingdom which would become the Empire. ... The reason this is strange is because Gaul was a roman territory and many Franks fought in the Roman legions. ... The Franks fought very differently from the Romans. ... Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800 A.D. ...

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His defeat of a contingent of Arabian cavalry in the battles of Poitiers and Tours marked the beginning of the Carolingian Empire. ... By the fusion of Roman and Germanic worlds with Christianity, Charlemagne built the largest territory since the fall of Western Rome, choosing the capital to be Aachen. ... Charlemagne was King, "the title which was used by our ancestors for the ruler of the Empire" (99). ... The dual hierarchies of church and state formed the political structure for the Carolingian Empire, but this extended into other aspects of life. ...

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" With this treasure Charlemagne was able to fund further military campaigns, as well as also being able to reward the barons, whose allegiance he needed in order to keep the Empire stable. ... Williams acknowledges this fact and argues that ethnic assertion and religious zeal lay at the very centre of Charlemagne's rule, thus hinting to the reader that Western Europe's unification as a single Christian empire was Charlemagne's prime ambition. ... At a great ceremony in Rome on Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charles as Emperor and Augustus, Emperor of the Romans...

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The creation of the "Papal States" indebted the Pope to Charlemagne, and Pope Leo III eventually crowned Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans" on Christmas day in 800AD. ... The education system used by Charlemagne's scholars was suprisingly like that of Classic Greek and Roman scholars. ...

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