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Title: Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ver them, and by the realization of the fact that the gov-ernment of the Franks was in every way better for themthan their own. The Saxons of a later time looked uponCharlemagne with gratitude, as the great apostle to theirrace and the founder of its civilization. 66. Charlemagnes other Conquests. — The other con-quests of Charlemagne were less important and occupiedbut little of his own attention. By invitation of one of thefactions of Mohammedan Spain, he crossed the Pyreneesand marched through the northern part of the country.Little was gained in this expedition, but afterwards theFrankish dominion was slowly pushed over a small triangleof territory in northeastern Spain, including the city ofBarcelona. Against the Tartar Avars in the Danube valley, who couldnot abandon their old habit of making plundering inroadson German territory, Charlemagne conducted one great andsuccessful campaign and then left the conquest to be com-pleted by others. In wars with the emperor at Constant!-
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Charlemagne 68 The Empire Revived. Charlemagne (§ 67 The beliefthat the Em-pire stillexistedc The popecrownsCharlemagneemperor, 800. nople he also gained lands east of the Adriatic, and thusjoined his territories in Italy with those of Germany, andcarried his boundaries nearly to those which had markedthe Western Roman Empire on the east. Many of theSlavic tribes that joined the Germans on the east acknow-ledged his supremacy, and the Danes were taught to respecthis power. 67. The Revival of the Roman Empire. —The territoriesof Charlemagne were, by the year 800, practically those ofthe old Roman Empire in the West. All the lands of thecontinent, which were still Christian and which had everbeen Roman, were now in his hands, and Germany besides.To all men who thought about it, it would seem that theWestern Empire had been reconstructed. The theory ofthe eternal dominion of Rome had not been forgotten, es-pecially not in Italy. In a vague way, sometimes in a realway in the case of th

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