Why Does Charlemagne Obtain Knowledge?

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Charlemagne was a leader that not only to his kingdom, but he understood the outside world as well. He mainly looking towards at the other kingdoms and trying to understand what is making them thrive. He knew that other Kingdoms were paying a lot of attention towards education. He also notices that each kingdom had a specific location where they would store this texts therefore anyone can obtain knowledge Charlemagne had a long road ahead of him because his Kingdom did not have any locations of where people can obtain knowledge. Charlemagne decided that it was important that his people can have basic knowledge of reading and writing texts. Many of his soldiers thought it was foolish to spend time learning about knowledge. Charlemagne did not

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