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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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reaty of Verdun (843). —Like thekingdom of Alexander, the mighty empire of Charlemagne fell topieces soo«i after his death. His sceptre was the bow of Ulysseswhich could not be drawn by any weaker hand. After a troub-lous period of dissension and war, the empire was divided, by theimportant Treaty of Verdun, among Charlemagnes three grand-children, — Charles, Lewis, and Lothair. To Charles was givenFrance ; to Lewis, Germany; and to Lothair, Italy and the valleyof the Rhone, together with a narrow strip of land extending fromSwitzerland to the mouth of the Rhine. With these possessionsof Lothair went also the Imperial title. enough, speak of the Roman empke in the West, and the Roman empire inthe East, or of the Western and Eastern emperors. See Bryces Holy RomanEmpire. The Eastern Empire was destroyed by the Turks in 1453; the lineof Western Teutonic emperors was maintained until the present century, whenit was ended by the act of Napoleon in the dismemberment of Germany (1806).
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