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1
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Kingdom in France which were the first large kingdoms to be re established after the fall of Rome

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Frankish kingdoms

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Monotheistic religion promoted by Muhammad that swept quickly through the Middle East established Muslim empire and pushed into territory held by European Christians

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Islam

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The foremost prophet of Islam who started who stayed there is no God but Allah. Lived in mid 600s and provided the ideas to the holy Koran

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Muhammad

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Islam established empires westward into Spain and eastward to the gates of Constantinople

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Islamic expansion

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5
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Christian Frankish king who successfully stopped the Muslim advance into France at the battle of Poitiers

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Charles Martel

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Medical flamethrower that destroyed Muslim ships and prevented an Islamic takeover of the Byzantine orthodox city of Constantinople

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Greek Fire and the defense of Constantinople

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The ideal Christian emperor

He fused the religion of Christianity and militant

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Charlemagne

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Epic French poem that tells the mythic story of Charlemagne and the tragic tale of Roland as they battled the Muslim ins Spain

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The song of Roland

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9
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Blending of religion and government into a stinger power

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Theocracy

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A relatively brief time when learning flourished during Charlemagne reign

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Carolingian Renaissance

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Fierce Norse barbarian raiders who used their longships and love of battle to terrorize civilization in Europe go a century

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The vikings(the Norsemen)

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Region of Northern Europe that was home to the vikings( modern day Norway Sweden Denmark)

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Scandinavia

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Viking sailing vessels which could move effectively over open ocean or European rivers

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Dragon ships

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14
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Chief Norse god

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Odin

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Norse idea of Viking heaven ( can fight brawl )

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Valhalla

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Viking exile and explorer who sailed to Iceland and Greenland and established a Viking presence there for hundreds of years

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Erik the red

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The first European to discover the new world he sailed to Newfoundland and eastern Canada

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Leif erikson

18
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Viking name for region of Northern America covered in vines

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Vinland

19
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First Viking king who converts Norway to Christianity 999 ad

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Olaf trygvesson

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Last of the great barbarians attacks into central Hungary

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Magyar invasion

21
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Christian king Otto I rallies his knights to annihilate the Magyar force

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The battle of lex held

22
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Crushed the last barbarian Magyar invasion

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Otto the great

23
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The first barbarian king to convert directly to roman Christian Catholicism

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Clovis

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