Furthermore, the Western Empire was replaced with small Germanic kingdoms that sprang all over Europe, with the crowning of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in 800. ... The dissolution of the Frankish empire caused the era to return into the Dark Ages, until feudalism arose. ... This era was also known as the Dark Ages (476~800 BC) because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. ... German states remain separate and unable to be unified due to the drowning of Frederick I's at the Third Crusade in 1190 because the absence of his leadership aroused panic and eventually, the fall of th...

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Petrarch believed that Italy should continue in the cultural tradition of the Roman Empire and wrote in both classical Latin and Italian. He also believed in the study and importance of the Greek and Roman classics as great works of literature. ... The Renaissance was a rebirth of civilization after a long period of decline since the glory days of the Roman Empire. ... He believed in the ideals and goals of the classical man described in Roman and Greek texts. He was responsible for discovering several texts and letters by the Roman author Cicero, who's Brutus became one of the most fa...

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Nevertheless, the term Renaissance remains a widely recognized label for the multifaceted period between the heyday of medieval universalism, as embodied in the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire, and the convulsions and sweeping transformations of the 17th century. ...

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