After you post your own answer, you will need to respond to three of your fellow classmates. Given what you have read in our textbook, do you believe that the Roman Empire declined and fell? Or that society, politics and life in general simply evolved-for the good or bad — after Odoacer overthrew Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus in ?
Use specific details and examples from the book to support your opinion.
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Why or why not? Do you agree with them? The purpose of the Crusades were to win Christian control of the holy land, Jerusalem. The First Crusades did accomplish getting the holy land under Christian control but in the way Alexius had hoped.
The leaders of these expeditions kept the newly conquered territories for themselves instead of handing to Alexius as he had hoped. Many more unsuccessful crusades happen later.
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The Muslims regained control in the middle east and the Christians lost the holy land. With the main goal of these holy wars being to gain control of the middle east, its obvious it was a failure.
The Christians control of the holy land was short lived. Some historians do credit some positive advancements to the Crusades.
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Its also been said that the Crusades stimulated trade and shaped our modern taxation systems. References Hunt, L. Commercial Quickening and Religious Reform, In Making of the West: To 4th Ed. Student Response 2 This week I chose to answer question two about Charlemagne. Charlemagne was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor on December 25, Charlemagne could scarcely be considered Roman, at best.
He conquered much of Western Europe, bringing Christianity wherever he won. After thirty years of fighting the Saxon people, he forcibly won and Fwll started forcing the baptisms of all Saxons with threats of death. He put a lot of faith in Christianity and the church. During the Carolingian Renaissance, Charlemagne had finally merged Christianity with the traditions of Rome and the Germanic people. Artists were also doing more with paintings of religious figures or mosaics of religious icons. Charlemagne was a devout Christian; it could even be argued that he was an extremist.
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He made leaps and bounds in establishing religious education throughout his empire and that speaks for his holiness. Sources: Hunt, Lynn et al. Charlemagne himself had risen to his supreme position of power by the consequence of this same desire for power and prestige.
The Pope was uncomfortable with the head of a power descended from the Roman Empire being of Hellenic descent, and blamed them for its downfall. In this way, Charlemagne was not given this great title because of his holiness or piety, but as a consequence of his powerful and influential position as the Charlemagne: The Rise And Fall Of The Carolingian Empire of the Franks and Italy. Charlemagne did not fall into this title as a result of his being in any way click from the old leaders of Rome either. Charlemagne was born either in what is now Belgium or in western Germany.
He was descended from a long line of Frankish rulers. Francia, which was ruled by the Merovingians after the fall of the Roman Empire in AD, had been a part of the Roman Empire and it is this geographical ancestry that is all that Charlemagne shared with the original Roman people.]
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