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ORIGIN OF THE MIDDLE AGES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Pope crowned Charlemagne
        as the new Emperor of the West.
    - - Pippin the Short, Martel's son, defeated the last Frankish monarch and became king
    - - Charles, Louis and Lothair signed the Treaty of Verdun
    - - Charles Martel defeated the Muslims in France,
        at the Battle of Tours.
- - - - The Visigothic kingdom reached its peak.
    - - The Visigothic kingdom disappeared
        after the Muslim invasion.
    - - there was constant fighting
        between the kings and nobles.
  - - - The Visigoths attacked Rome.
    - - The Franks expelled the Visigoths
        from Gaul.
    - - The Visigoths entered the Roman Empire at the end of the 4th century
        to escape from the Huns.
- - - - Odoacer, king of the Ostrogoths, deposed the last Emperor of the West, Romulus Augustus. In the east the Empire continued until 1453 with the fall of Constantinople.
    - - «Llombards» invaded Italy.
    - - The «Huns» invaded Italy
    - - Constantinopolis was declared the capital of the Roman Empire.
    - - Division of the Roman Empire into two parts.
    - - Africa was invaded by the Vandals
    - - Christianism was declared legal.
    - - Rome was attacked by Visigoths
- - - - The cities, which were the great social nucleus of the Roman world, will no longer be safe in theMiddle Ages. Without cities and without shops, the countryside became the only hope, practically, of the majority of the population of the western kingdoms. The different territories of the kingdoms were divided, then, into lordships; that is, in the lands of a Lord. Then feudal relations were born. In the case of feudalism, the relations between a Lord and a Vassal are relations of convenience: the Lord needs someone to work his land, and the peasant needs someone to protect him from
        looting or invasions.
    - - The scandinavian invasions were a invasions that the vikings and the normands provoced to conquist the Roman Empire. Those invasions during between the IX century until X century. They came from Scandinavia, the North of Africa and also of the esteps of Asia.