... faithful, in those lands by taking away the relative autonomy of the provincial churches and placing them under the authority of the pope After the Empires last links were severed in the west and it became known as Byzantium to historians, the Greek Church of the east finally parted company ... settle the lands that would bear that name to this day. The Germanic peoples were of course not the only peoples that contributed to the downfall and transformation of the Roman Empire into the medieval world order. There was of course the major victories of the Arabs, that in the ... the Slavic ...

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... ". This type of Imperialism was first used by Otto von Bismark in his quest for a powerful, united Germany. It was this train of thought which built up great and powerful empires and ironically had them destroyed by the two world wars created by their megalomania. The first beginnings of this new ideology can be traced back to Prussia at 1870. The ... 's decline, due to the loss of ability to control subjugates and to the emerging power of the USA. Even though the allies won World War 1, their ability to control their empires was severely hampered. Only Britain remained with enough power ...

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