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Everyone including catholic rome partook in the slave trade. It was a huge basis for the economy for central europe

In the early 900s, while vikings plundered england and sailed around western europe, hungarians were raiding across all of europe when they were pushed into it by other nomadic tribes from eurasia

Hungarians emerge into Europe in late 9th century from western siberia. They were culturally turkic and their language was more related to finnish than any other european language

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