Charlemagne

Charlemagne was a king of the franks. He was born on April 2 742.He died on January 28 814 at the age of 71. He Became king of the Franks in 771 . He wanted to turn his people to Christianity. He also wanted to make them more civilized and learned. Before the franks had settled down they were a barbarian tribe that attacked Rome. He was crowned roman emperor at 800 Christmas day. This seemed ironic because he was a frank. But he had build many buildings and made people go to church. The pope that crowned him was called Leo III.Charlemagne Fought many wars . Here are some of them

Lombards
The Lombards were people that had land in northern Italy and the alps . They wanted to take over the Papal states. Where the pope lived . The pope asked The Byzantines for help. But they did not have enough armies.So the pope asked Charlemagne for help . Charlemagne brought his army down and took over the Lombards .

Saxons
Charlemagne  fought the Saxons.
A tribe north of him and took them over.

Moors
Charlemagne's armies  fought the Moors to.
The Moors were a Muslim people that lived in Spain .
Charlemagne's armies took over a resolvable amount of cities and expanded his land .

Charlemagne used a lot of Calvary and foot soldiers in his battles. Leo III and Charlemagne were friends Because Leo III crowned Charlemagne and Charlemagne defended Leo III. He had a sword called Joyeuse. He fought with it a lot . But he also helped his people become Christian and hired people to teach them to read and write .He Also turned his People the barbaric franks into more civilized people. He forced his Conquered people to become Christian . Towards the end of his rein his country was attacked by danish vikings

Sources : Khan Academy, Wiki and the story of the world volume 2 medieval ages  .

Romans

I love studying about Rome. There's so much to learn and Legionaries are one of my favorite things to draw.

I love the turtle formation they made with their shields.

I like the architecture based on the Greeks but even better like the aqueduct and the colliseum.

I also think they had an interesting goverment since they changed from a monarchy to a republic. Although when an emperor became too powerful it didn't always work perfect like when the senate killed Julius Caesar.

VIVA LA ROMA

I've been learning about Rome.

A Roman Centurion is a leader of 80 Roman legionaries.
A Roman General is the leader of all of the men.
Rome conquered from Egypt to Britain. The Romans fought the Gauls.
Gaul today is France.

Romans learned different technologies too.
They had a crossbow that could break through armor.
They had a special siege towers too for getting inside a city or castle.

They made aqueducts to get water in the cities. The leader who made the aqueduct was Augustus Caesar. But he did not see the aqueduct finished, a later emperor Tiberius did.
When the barbarians attacked Rome at the end, they destroyed the aqueduct and the people didn't have water so they left Rome.

When they were attacking Britain, they made a wall all the way across the country. It was called Hadrian's wall. Parts of the wall are still there today.

My favorite way of saying Rome is Red Rome because the legionaries had Red shields and capes.

Rome was a great empire until the people got lazy and barbarians attacked and the Roman empire fell.

I drew pictures of Roman soldiers, Asterix and Obelix who fought the Romans, Roman Sea battles and built a Roman fort with my brother.