The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . pire arose out of a union of the Papacy andthe Erankish power. This union began in the coronation andthe donation of Pippin, and was confirmed by the Christmas-day coronation of Charles. In later times the union was to beexpressed in the name. The Holy Roman Empire. The Empirehad its spiritual as well as its temporal head. The limits ofauthority between the two were not well defined, and dissen-sions were afterward to arise between them. 797. The Great Powers in 8oo — Thus at the close of AncientHistory the world is divided among four
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . pire arose out of a union of the Papacy andthe Erankish power. This union began in the coronation andthe donation of Pippin, and was confirmed by the Christmas-day coronation of Charles. In later times the union was to beexpressed in the name. The Holy Roman Empire. The Empirehad its spiritual as well as its temporal head. The limits ofauthority between the two were not well defined, and dissen-sions were afterward to arise between them. 797. The Great Powers in 8oo — Thus at the close of AncientHistory the world is divided among four Great Powers — the two ChristianEmpires and the two rival Mohammedan Caliphates.^ The Christian states were in some sense rivals. Each was bitterlyhostile to its Mohammedan neighbor, and each in consequence was to 1 The Caliph Haroun al Raschid at Bagdad, the hero of the Arabian Nights^was Charlemagnes contemporary. In an exchange of courtesies, the Saracensent to the Frankish king a white elephant and a curious water clock thatstruck the 40 45 50 55 60 65 %l rOloA
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