The Germanic Kingdoms.

Chachacahcahcahcahcahchachachacharlamagne.


The middle ages, also known as the medieval era, was the era succeeding the reign of the Roman Empire. This era lasted for nearly a thousand years form 476 to 1453.

This new society is an amalgamation of the old Roman customs and traditions, customs of the Germanic tribes, and the Religion known as Christianity.

During the fifth century, the Roman Empire was in shambles, on their last knee. They were just about done to put it lightly, especially when they were being invaded by Germanic tribes whom their measly leftovers of an army couldn't handle anymore. As a result of the invasions, law broke down and the rides were no longer safe to travel. This led to a lack of trade routes and so the trading industry broke down. Without trade, there were hardly any jobs available in cities, and so the citizens began leaving the cities to find work in rural areas, farming and working the land.

During this time, culture also began to kind of reverse in an evolutionary sense. Instead of getting smarter as we had been for thousands of years, the average human being in Europe became dumber. Most people didn't know how to read an write, a skill common and essential in the old Roman Empire. Those who could write were usually priests and nuns, as they had to read scripture and copy books. Average people told stories through the classic way of oral tradition. around this time the romance languages began to develop as well. France, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.

In the beginning of this era, there was no central government. A lord would own a large chunk of land in which a few hundred people would work and live. He would hire soldiers and they would basically be their own little country. There were hundreds of these, not united by any king.

There was an exception though, as Clovis ruled the Germanic people of Gaul, known today as France. During a battle in 496, him and 3000 of his soldiers convert to Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church thinks this is awesome. By 511 the Franks are united into one Kingdom.

Pretty Cool.

The Crusades. Not totally radical.

During this time the Holy Roman Empire is among the largest an most powerful. The Catholic Church has the most power it has ever seen.

In the late 11th century, Jerusalem, the Holy city for all three Abrahamic religions, was controlled by the Muslims.

In 1093, Emperor Alexius Commenus wrote a letter to Pope Urban II, encouraging him to send his troops and supplies to help win back the holy land. In a way he was kind of guilting the Pope into helping him, saying god would condemn those who do not help, and would reward those who do.

Pope Urban listened, and form 1095 to 1291 the crusades, military campaigns aimed at taking back Jerusalem, were waged.

The soldiers took vows to take back the holy land and the Pope promised those who helped take back the holy land would receive immediate remission for their sins.

There were 9 crusades, which saw the capture and loss of the city from both sides several times. The fighting even continued outside the city, as Christians and Muslims fight at other cities as well.

COME ON GUYS, STOP FIGHTING ALREADY.

Jesus Christ Amen Hallelujah.

Today in class we talked about cool boy Jesus Christ. The freshest, funkiest Messiah the world has ever seen. He's a pretty cool guy. One time he gave me a high five on a motorcycle through my car window. Another time he he hang out with me and my pals and he told us some crazy wild stories about all the fun stuff he did back in the day. He said that one time he got pulled over by a legionnaire   on the side of the road for speeding, and he got out of by saying, " Hey, I'm Jesus, chill bro." Jesus then gave him a fresh fish and they were best friends. The legionnaire's name was Ocobulus Monoboboluvus. Then they went on crazy adventures.


Ok that obviously didn't happen, or did it?
No it didn't.

Anyway, Jesus is cool, and he wasn't a caucasian. It's impossible.

Some kind of goose I guess?

Today I was sick. See ya later.

Notes on Chachachachachachachachachachachacharlemagne. aka lil' Charlie

Charlemagne became emperor of the Frankish kingdoms after Pepin The short, his father, died in 768. Then his brother died in 771. He was especially tall for the time, standing at 6 feet 4 inches, very ironic when you consider his father's nickname.

Charlemagne built an Empire to rival that of Ancient Rome's. Each summer he led armies against his enemies to conquer new territory. Through the conquests, he further spread Christianity.

He reunited Central Europe for the first time since the days of the Roman Empire. By 800, his empire was bigger than the Byzantine Empire. He was the most powerful king in Europe.

When lil' charlie defende Pope Leo III against an angry mob, he was named crowned emperor.  This was a first in history as the Pope had given himself the right to name someone the Roman Empire. This marked a beginning of the joining of Germanic power, the church, and the heritage of Rome's Empire.

One year before he died in 814, lil' Charlie named his son,  Louis the Pious, as emperor. Louis was a very religious, man as well as an effective leader.

WARNING! EXTREMEMLY VOLATILE POST. DO NOT TOUCH.

Today we took a test. It was ok I guess.

I can't find the turtle.

Today we took some more notes about Julius Caesar....and...um..emperorrrrs....and........fSgsbsfjmhg
jfxfzgSDvVSBFSBDrb6hvc 66tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Oops sorry, fell asleep for a moment there. Anyway we learned about really weird perverted emperors, and dumb looking, drooling, shaking emperors, who surprisingly got the job done. There was Augustus Caesar who carried on the legacy of Julius after becoming emperor. He became emperor by pretty much getting rid of any other political adversary who would be opposed to him taking so much power. For instance, Mark Antony, who committed suicide after his armies were defeated by Augustus. Anyway, there's a squirrel eating those peanuts I left outside, so I have to go.

lelelelelelel-elelele-lelelelelelel-elelelelelel-elelelelel

Today we took more totally radical notes about Julius Caesar and Pompey, and stuff. Julius backflipped across the Rubicon and landed with a thumbs up. Rome didn't find this impressive and Caesar took control with his Legions of totally radical dudes. Caesar formed the triumvirate, with his bros Pompey and Carrot. HE WAS THE COOLEST AND HE WAS REALLY COOL!

Radical Blog Time.

Today we took some totally radical notes about Rome n' stuff. It was super cool, and they were the best notes ever! I learned about Roman Politics snd all sorts of wacky, crazy stuff. Those darn plebeians were really, super sad about their lad being sold after they went to war and couldn't tend to their farms. They moved to the city to find jobs but guess what! There were none! All the good jobs had been taken by the slaves who didn't get payed at all, so the business owners had no reasons to hire citizens that they would need to pay. Totally not radical. Also slavery is bad. The government feared possible plebeian uprising and created public entertainment and offered free food. Cooooolllll!
For the most part, it worked too! Everyone was distracted by freed cheese and blood and guts is the colosseum. Ewwww. Well goodbye everyone, and death to Marmalade!