... . He also observed his officials work personally by traveling throughout the empire. Charlemagne was a very influential emperor. He englarged his Frank kingdom to become the Frankish Empire. He ended the chaos of Western Europe by making everyone convert to Christianity. He ended up ruling most all of Western Europe and this was the first time since the fall of Rome that it had been ruled by one government. He set ... up a school to educate officials. He was crowned the Roman emperor of the new Holy Roman Empire, and relied on counts to help him. When he died his son was not able ... to...

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... king of the Franks. He immediately went to Rome and assured the pope of his continued support."(8) Charlemagne as the new king of the Franks began the expansion of his kingdom. He went to war with the Saxons in 772. The Saxons had for a long time caused unrest for the empire by frequently attacking its borders. "The Saxons were the last non-Christian tribe of central ... the building of markets."(10) The education system had also decayed greatly after the fall of the Roman Empire. "Charlemagne felt it was his religious duty to raise the level of education of the clergy, so they could pro...

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