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325
concil of nicea
This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom -
337
constuntine
battle of milvian bridge -
376
fall of the roman empire
The Empire had large numbers of trained, supplied, and disciplined soldiers, it had a comprehensive civil administration based in thriving cities with effective control over public finances, and it maintained extreme differences of wealth and status including slavery on a large scale -
466
clovis 1
adopt christianity -
537
hajia sophia
it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral -
541
the plague
in the 14th century and killed an estimated 25 million people -
Oct 2, 732
battle of tours
Decisive Frankish victory, withdrawal of the Umayyad army -
Oct 3, 735
beade
He is well known as an author and scholar -
viking raids
sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia -
holy roman empire
The empire grew out of East Francia, a primary division of the Frankish Empire, and explicitly proclaimed itself the continuation of the Western Roman Empire