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How did Charlemagne unify Western Europe?
he spread education and religion throughout the eastern area! duhh
Who ended Charlemagne's empire?
After the death of his son the empire was divided between his (Louis, the sons of Charlemagne) three sons, as was common in his culture. De title of "holy Roman Emperor" was given to the most eastern part, today known as Germany. That is also the reason that Germany was known as "the Holy Roman Empire" until 1806. So it was his son who first divided his empire, but it existed until 1806.
What is eastern?
Eastern Orthodoxy is just as old as Catholicism. Before 1054 there was simply the Church. No separate denominations or anything. Afterwards, the Catholic and Orthodox churches were formed and later differences in tradition and theology arose. For example, the Catholic Pope is infallible, the Orthodox use a different calendar to calculate Easter, and the Orthodox still use tradition Byzantine style when painting their icons. There are many differences and yet both churches hope to reunite someday to restore the Christian faith to it's once universal state.
What was the state religion of the Eastern Roman Empire circa 1300?
The religion of the former eastern part of the Roman Empire in 1300 was Orthodox Christianity. It had been so since the Edict of Thessalonica on 380, except that at that time it was called Greek of Eastern Christianity. Edict of Thessalonica made mainstream Christianity (Latin or Western Christianity and Greek or Eastern Christianity) the sole legitimate religion of the Roman Empire. Its purpose t was to ban dissident Christian doctrines, which were branded as heretic. The main target was Arian Christianity, which was popular around the empire. At that time the Latin/Western church and the Greek/Eastern Church, were the main churches of the western and eastern part of the empire respectively. They were two branches of one church which was called Catholic Church and they both subscribed to the Nicene Creed, a particular interpretation of the trinity Later these two churches spit and came to be called Catholic and Orthodox respectively. Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are terms which have been coined by historians. The Romans did not use them. The said Roman Empire. Historians have also coined the term Byzantine Empire to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part in the late 5th century. The Romans did not use this term, either. They called it Roman Empire or Romania (this referred to this empire and not the country which was later called Romania).
What did Charlemagne take over in the late 700's or the early 800's?
After King Pepin the Short died in 768, his two sons, Charlemagne and Carloman, shared the Frankish (French) kingdom. The kingdom was made up of what is now France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. After his brother's death in 771, Charlemagne became sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom (France). Soon he conquered the Lombard kingdom in Italy and Bavaria. He waged his bitterest campaign against the Saxons, a pagan people after 30 years of war. He forced them to accept Christianity. He also conquered part of northern Spain, called the "Spanish March". By 800 his empire extended from central Italy north to Denmark and from eastern Germany west to the Atlantic Ocean. Pope Leo III crowned him Emperor of the West on Christmas Day, 800 in Rome. I hope that this has been a help to you. Source, Harveymac1336
