| The Distintergration of the Carolingian World and the Reform of the Church |
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| The Distintergration of the Carolingian World and the Reform of the Church |
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| Louis the Pious died in 840 |
Viking Ceremonial Helmet Click on helmet |
The New Invasions
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Vikings, Saracens, and Magyars
| Lindisfarne 793 | Rus | Volga River | |
Iceland 874 Greenland |
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| Charles the Simple
Rollo the Viking, Normandy 911 |
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Map of Viking invasions of British Isles
King Harald of Norway: Russia: 1031 - Constantinople 1035 - Sicily 1038-1041
Vikings explore Greenland
and North America, ca. 1000
Empire of Cnut the Great 995-1035
Saracens (Arabs): Sicily, 843 sack of Rome, Corsica, Sardinia,
Delta of the Rhone River
Emperor Otto I (936-973)
Magyars: Lechfeld 955
| The Gregorian Reform Movement (The Investiture Struggle), The World's First Great Revolution |
| Crusade and Expansion of Europe |
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Pisa's Conquest of Corsica and Sardinia
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The First Crusade |
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| Council of Clermont 1095 | Jerusalem:
Holy to Jews, Christians, and Moslems |
| Indulgence | Pope Urban II, Speech at Clermont |
| Peter the Hermit | Raymond of Toulouse |
| Ademar of Le Puy, Papal Legate | Bohemond of Taranto, Prince of Antioch |
| Capture of Jerusalem 1099 |
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