Status Updates From The Middle Kingdoms: A New ...

ch 3 done. Central europe followed the catholic civilizational and cultural trajectory, the western slavs here included. The eastern slavs would grow into orthodox civ

Charlemagne conquers Frankia, northern italy, and is crowned emperor by the pope. He is considered one of europe’s greatest conquerors in history. He is at constant war for 30 years, and in his life behaved more like a pagan warlord than a moral christian king

Finished Ch 1 on the fall of rome in the west, attila the hun, the rise of germanic states peopled by the franks, germans, slavs, hungarians. Starting ch 2 on the rise of the frankish empire and charlemagne