1. Middle Ages
... bought their positions. The economic life for most Western Europeans was not much better than the religious and intellectual quality. There weren't really any great cities and most common people worked in agriculture to provide what they could to keep their families alive. However, in the eighth century Charlemagne succeeded in starting a small renaissance and uniting much of the Frankish territory. He preserved ... some of the Latin literature that might've otherwise been lost and started a few schools to educate monks. Even though the empire fell apart after the death of Charlemagne an...
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