Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these events in Carolingian history, earliest first.
- Charlemagne is crowned emperor in Rome
- Pippin deposes the last Merovingian king
- The Admonitio generalis orders schools and corrected texts
- Magyar forces are defeated at the Lechfeld
- Charlemagne conquers the Lombard kingdom
- The Treaty of Verdun divides the empire three ways
Hints
- Three of these fall in the eighth century.
- The deposition 751, the Lombards 774, the Admonitio 789, the coronation 800, Verdun 843, the Lechfeld 955.
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- Pippin deposes the last Merovingian king
- Charlemagne conquers the Lombard kingdom
- The Admonitio generalis orders schools and corrected texts
- Charlemagne is crowned emperor in Rome
- The Treaty of Verdun divides the empire three ways
- Magyar forces are defeated at the Lechfeld
Why
Two generations build the empire and one generation divides it. The gap between the coronation and Verdun is forty-three years, shorter than Charlemagne’s reign, which is a useful measure of how much the structure depended on a single person and how little on institutions that could outlive him.
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