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Title: A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876- jt. auth
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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at were the principles of the Mohammedan belief? Why were theyoften more attractive to the Oriental people than the principles ofChristianity? 4. What were the contributions of the Arabs to civilization? 5. Describe the civilization of the city of Constantinople at its best. 38 HISTORY OF EUROPE EXERCISES i. The work of Justinian. 2. Write a summary of the events occurring in western Europe duringthe period 571-750. 3. The East-Roman Empire is known also as the Byzantine and theGreek Empire. Why? 4. Which repulse of the Mohammedans — that at Constantinople, orthat at Tours — was of greater importance to Europe? READING Sources. Ogg: chapter vn. Robinson: no. 48. Modern Accounts. Emerton: pp. 122-26. Seignobos: pp. 27-38, 39-46.Bemont and Monod: pp. 99-114, 135-66, 336-47. CHAPTER V THE MONARCHY OF THE FRANKS 20. Clovis (481-511) and the Merovingian Franks. Of all the kingdoms founded by the Germanic invaders on the wreckof the old Western Roman Empire, only one really survived —
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THE MONARCHY OF THE FRANKS the kingdom of the Franks. Bloody and barbarous as theearly annals of this kingdom seem, they cannot be ignored, for 4o HISTORY OF EUROPE the Franks were the founders both of modern France and, in aless direct sense, of modern Germany. In former days the Franks had lain along the eastern bankof the Rhine, close neighbors to the Romans. During the stormand stress of the fifth century they moved across into thenorthern provinces of Gaul and seized their share of the dyingEmpire; but they differed from other invaders in that theynever wholly evacuated their homeland beyond the Rhine.A large part of their dominions always lay in regions that hadnever submitted to the imperial legions. The Franks were probably fiercer and seemingly less tract-able to civilization than many other invaders. From theiryouth up, wrote an anxious Roman, war is their passion.(Against superior numbers) death may overwhelm them, butnot fear. Their very name is usually derived from theirf

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