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A 5 page paper. When Charlemagne died in 814, he left an empire that had no legal or administrative structure. What little stability existing during his time was shattered with the invasion of the Vikings. The Christian Crusades began shortly, a noble goal that soon turned to a crusade for wealth rather than its original purpose. This essay explains how the Church and the papacy gained such incredible power and wealth during this era, including the Inquisition and the eventual conflict between state and church. Information is based on Fiero's work. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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no set of laws and no army (Fiero, DATE). What little stability the region had was destroyed by Scandinavian seafarers, the infamous Vikings (Fiero, DATE). The forays of the Vikings
and the Muslims left the territories without leadership and unable to defend themselves against greater and much more organized forces (Fiero, DATE). Charlemagnes three grandsons subsequently divided the land among
themselves, separating French and German-speaking territories (Fiero, DATE). These events and conditions led to the establishment of a system of political and military power called feudalism (Fiero, DATE). Under
this system, land was given in return for military service (Fiero, DATE). Men, under the feudal contract, were known as either Chevaliers, in the French-speaking sectors, or Knights, in the
German speaking sectors (Fiero, DATE). The Knights code of conduct followed the system of chivalry (Fiero, DATE). It was during the eleventh century that the Christian Crusades began, they would
last until the thirteenth century (Fiero, DATE). The Crusades were intended to rescue Jerusalem from the Muslims and, more specifically, the Muslim Turks who were threatening the Byzantine Empire and
who were also preventing Christians from making their pilgrimages to the Holy Land (Fiero, DATE). The military expeditions conducted by the Catholic Church of Rome were initiated at the request
of Byzantine emperor (Fiero, DATE). Pope Urban II ordered the first campaign in 1095, which was to recover the lands conquered and now occupied by the Turks (Fiero, DATE). Thousands
of people, military and not military "took up the cross" and marched across miles of land to Byzantine (Fiero, DATE). What began with what could be considered a noble cause,
that of taking back land that had been forcibly taken from the Empire, soon found other aims and goals, material wealth (Fiero, DATE). Ambitious but disenfranchised young men quickly saw
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