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Pope during the time of Pepin the Short
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Stephen II
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King who reigned shortly after Pepin's death in 768 AD before his son Charles (Charlemagne) took the throne
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Carloman
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The Moors lived in ______ and were made up of ____________
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Spain, Arabs and Berbers
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In 778 AD, the rear of Charlemagne's army was plundered by the ________________, and this inspired the epic _____________. This is a favorite theme of the ________ of Southern France.
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Gascon and Basque mountaineers, The Song of Roland, Troubadours.
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At the end of 800, on Christmas Day, Charlemagne was crowned __________ by Pope _________. The ____________ was born.
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Emperor of Byzantine, Leo III, Holy Roman Empire.
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Charlemagne died in _______, and his empire was divided among his three children through the Treaty of _______.
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814, Verdun
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To ________ was given France, to _________ was given Germany, and to ____________ was given Italy.
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Charles, Lewis, Lothair.
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The vikings sailed to ________ in ____. They settled there 14 years later.
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Iceland, 860.
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Iceland became the literary center of ______________. Its literary collections were later gathered into the __________ _________ (poetic), and the ________ ________ (prose).
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Scandinavia, Elder Edda, Younger Edda.
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What are the differences between a Mangonel and a Trebuchet?
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The Mangonel was invented first, before the widespread use of gunpowder. It had less acuracy, lower range, and higher range, designed for throwing things into walls, to destroy them, rather then throw things over, like a Trebuchet.
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