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This victory gave Charlemagne the trust of the Pope just like his father Pepin received from the Pope. Two years later the Lombards had a rebellion but Charlemagne ran from Saxony to stomp out the rebellion. He signed a peace treaty with their Duke and gained Northern Italy. The Lombard territory that was gained from these battles was used as the Papal states and Charlemagne increased the Papacy’s power when he assigned his son to rule Lombardy. He then

kingdom of the Franks. In 771 Carloman died, and Charlemagne became sole ruler of the kingdom. At that time the northern half of Europe was still pagan and lawless. In the south, the Roman Catholic Church was striving to assert its power against the Lombard kingdom in Italy. In Charlemagne's own realm, the Franks were falling back into barbarian ways, neglecting their education and religion. Charlemagne was determined to strengthen his realm and to bring order to Europe. In 772 he launched a 30-year

but had no power and for that reason he was considered a joke by the people. After he retired in 747, Pepin wanted to be king, he cooperated with the pope. In support of the Church, Pepin agreed to fight the Lombards, who had invaded central Italy and threatened Rome. Pepin forced the Lombards to accept the independence of Rome, marking the beginning of the Papal State and finally conquered Aquitaine.Pepin was then elected King of the Franks by an assembly of Frankish leading-men, with a large portion

Gregory assumed his post as the Pope. Gregory is writing to Velox, a junior military commander of the Roman army united against the Duke of Spoleto, Ariulf. The conflict Gregory is involved in is the struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Lombard Kingdom, a Germanic race originated from Sweden that controlled much of present day Italy, for a strip of land called Via Flaminia that separated Ravenna from Rome. The purpose of the first half of the letter is for Gregory to explain that he has

Myrtle Opal Regina Anna Christina Wachlin Lombard was born in 1946. She was born in Ada, Minnesota. She grew up with her parent’s and fourteen siblings. Now she has no siblings that are alive. She used to be a cosmetologist and did wonderful work coloring and styling hair. She always made the hair more than it was, she would make it better than the person could have ever wanted it to be and she took great care of it for the other person. She gave advice on how to keep the hair that way for as long

American Poet Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was an American author and poet born January 6th, 1878, to parents of Swedish ancestry. As a laborer, Carl’s father discouraged his interest in books. Yet, his mother saw potential and supported his education. Because of his self-interest in education, and his mother 's support, Sandburg was inspired to write. In fact, he became a very accomplished writer. He received 3 Pulitzer Prize awards: two for his poetry, and one for his biography on Abraham Lincoln

Spending his entire life developing the way he wrote, Carl Sandburg created a very distinct writing style. He continuously traveled throughout his life, experiencing new things and people which shaped his view and therefore his writing style. Because of this change in writing style throughout his life, he wrote in both the Modern and Contemporary American literary time periods. Contributing to this was his early fascination with language easily traced back to his time on the Illinois prairie, where

Obviously King Charles is filled with hatred for King Desiderius of the Lombards because of the plot against him with his own brother and with a request from Hadrian, the Bishop of the city of Rome asking him to wage war against the Lombards to bring peace to Rome. Charles wages war against the Lombards and does not stop until King Desiderius and his son Adalgis, the last hope of the Lombards, are driven from not only Italy but from the kingdom of the Franks. Charles now names his son Pepin as King

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON OF 1666 The Great Fire of London of 1666 that was started by Thomas Farrinor’s bakery caused the destruction of 80 percent of London and led to the creation of insurance and firefighting companies. The fire marked a time of rebirth for the British capital since the city had to rebuild entirely. The fire was quite an interesting event owing the fact that it caused such an extreme amount of destruction and took the lives of only six people. Londoners remember the seventeenth

shock takes a toll on me physically and psychologically. To help me unveil methods to manage and prevent occurrences of culture shock I will be using an assortment of articles. Specifically, I will be citing scholarly articles written by Catherine Lombard, Jonathan Rempel, and Junzi Xia. Along with the use of our textbook Understanding Intercultural Communications written by Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva Chung. A way to interpret culture shock is to envision it similarly to a disease. It has different