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Intro Intro paragraph Music (Feature Photo: The ruins of the eleventh-century Great Mosque in the port city of Kilwa Kisiwani, an island off the Swahili Coast of Tanzania; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1000 RULERS & ROYALTY: Athelred II "The Unready" is king of the English – García II, king of Pamplona (later called Navarre, in...
Intro Intro Paragraph music (Feature Photo: A close up of Bath Abbey, where Edgar the Peaceable was crowned in 973, Credit: Leeshawkins, Wikimedia Commons) 980 RULERS & ROYALTY: Athelred II "The Unready" becomes king of the English – Sancho II is king of Pamplona (later called Navarre, in present-day Basque region of...
Intro Intro Music (Feature Photo: The Volga River in Russia; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 950 RULERS & ROYALTY: Eadred is king of the English – Agapetus II is pope/bishop of Rome Viking raids extend down the river Volga, the longest river in Europe, which flows from central to southern Russia; Eventually the...
Intro Intro paragraph music (Feature Photo: Frontispiece of of Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert of Athelstan, showing Athelstan, king of the English, presenting a copy of the book to the saint himself, circa 930; Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Source: Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England) 930 RULERS & ROYALTY: Athelstan is king...
The last century before the new millennium. Intro Paragraph Photo Music 900 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward the Elder is king of the Anglo-Saxons (England) – Donald II, king of the Picts (Scots), dies, and is succeeded by Constantine II, an early king of Scotland – [Carolingian successor kingdoms] – John IX, the 116th pope/bishop of Rome,...
Intro Intro Paragraph Music (Feature Photo: West Stow, Anglo-Saxon Village; Wikimedia Commons) 880 RULERS & ROYALTY: Alfred "The Great" is king of the West Saxons (southern England) – Giric is king of the Picts (Scots) – No emperor of the Carolingian Empire until 881 (though there are many kings within the empire) – John VIII...
(Feature Photo: Pictish Culswick Broch, Shetland islands, Scotland; Credit: Colin Smith, Wikimedia Commons) 850 RULERS & ROYALTY: Kenneth MacAplin is king of the Picts (Scots) – Lothair is emperor of the Carolingian Empire (though now the empire is split up into three parts): Charles II "The Bald" is king of West Francia (the western part of...
All Empires Split Up. And the Carolingian Empire was no different. It ruled over modern-day France and Germany, and even parts of norther Italy. But as soon as the last strong leader died, there was a power struggle, and the empire ended up being carved up into West, Middle, and...
Did you know the Franks were a Germanic people? Historically, they occupied central Europe and Scandinavia, and by the 800's these Germanic tribes became the Germanic Dynasties who ruled the western part of the collapsed Roman Empire. These dynasties began both the Holy Roman Empire, as well as the kingdoms of...
(Feature Photo: Looking along Offa's Dyke in Herefordshire; Credit: Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons) 780 RULERS & ROYALTY: Offa is king of Mercia (midlands of England) – Adrian I is pope/bishop of Rome – Leo IV "The Khazar," emperor of the Byzantine Empire, dies, and his son Constantine VI, succeeds him...
(Feature Photo: A miniature illustration from the 14th century showing Byzantine Emperor Constantine V giving orders to destroy a church during the iconoclasm [destruction of icons, images] period of the Byzantine Empire; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 750 RULERS & ROYALTY: Aethelbald is king of Mercia (midlands England) – Zachary is pope/bishop of...
(Feature Photo: An Umayyad palace built in 720 on the Citadel of what is now modern-day Amman; It was destroyed by an earthquake in 749 and was never fully rebuilt; Credit: Andryn, Wikimedia Commons) 730 RULERS & ROYALTY: Aethelbald is king of Mercia (midlands England) – The Merovingian kings (Frankish kings) are...
700 RULERS & ROYALTY: In England, the Saxon kings are ruling, with the three powers being Wessex, Northumbria and Mercia, the king of Wessex right now is Ine (r. 688-726), he is the first true king of the West Saxons, as distinct from a warleader (BKQ 26) 701...
Intro Intro Music (Feature Photo: Ruins of Carthage in Tunisia, Africa; Photo Credit: Calips, Wikimedia Commons) 680 The Temple Mount is refashioned by the “Umayyads—the all-powerful Sunni caliphate whose armies had conquered the city [Jerusalem] a few decades after Muhammad’s death in the late seventh century A.D,” they...
(Feature Photo: Map of the Western Roman Empire created in 1818; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 650 RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I is pope/bishop of Rome – Constans II "The Bearded" is emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (which will become the Byzantine Empire) – 651 RULERS & ROYALTY: – Martin I...
(Feature Photo: Depiction of the Pharos lighthouse in Egypt painted in 1721; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 630 The prophet Mohammed returns to Mecca (after fleeing it because of persecution from pagans) and conquers it, then makes it into a spiritual center of his new religion of Islam 631 635 ...
