Charlemagne: Man and Myth In 476 ad the Roman Empire was under attack from Germanic barbarians from all around. ... In front of a crowd of Roman people Romulus was beheaded, so too was the Roman Empire. ... This not only signaled a revival of the good old days in Europe but also the creation of the Carolingian or Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne held the title of Holy Roman Empire until his death. Charlemagne tried to close the breach between the Byzantine Empire and the new Carolingian Empire to again from the Roman Empire. ...

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He got the ideas from the Romans and there great public works. ... Charlemagne made many conquests expanding the kingdom which would become the Empire. ... The reason this is strange is because Gaul was a roman territory and many Franks fought in the Roman legions. ... The Franks fought very differently from the Romans. ... Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800 A.D. ...

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" With this treasure Charlemagne was able to fund further military campaigns, as well as also being able to reward the barons, whose allegiance he needed in order to keep the Empire stable. ... Williams acknowledges this fact and argues that ethnic assertion and religious zeal lay at the very centre of Charlemagne's rule, thus hinting to the reader that Western Europe's unification as a single Christian empire was Charlemagne's prime ambition. ... At a great ceremony in Rome on Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charles as Emperor and Augustus, Emperor of the Romans...

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The lands which Napoleon conquered were exploited for the benefit, not of the whole Empire, but for France. ... The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France. ... Roman Catholicism was recognized as the religion of most French citizens. By reestablishing the Roman Catholic Church, he won the support of the large majority of peasant-farmers. ...

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The creation of the "Papal States" indebted the Pope to Charlemagne, and Pope Leo III eventually crowned Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans" on Christmas day in 800AD. ... The education system used by Charlemagne's scholars was suprisingly like that of Classic Greek and Roman scholars. ...

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