Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 8th century. The foundations of the Prankish kingdom laid byClovis, beginning of the 6th century, — Merovingiandynasty continues for about a century,—superseded byPepin, son of Charles Martel and father of Charle-magne, who becomes king of the Franks about themiddle of the Sth century. Invasion of Celtic Britain by Low-German tribes, Angles, Saxons, etc., just before the downfall of Rome, — formation of various petty kingdoms, — all become practi
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 8th century. The foundations of the Prankish kingdom laid byClovis, beginning of the 6th century, — Merovingiandynasty continues for about a century,—superseded byPepin, son of Charles Martel and father of Charle-magne, who becomes king of the Franks about themiddle of the Sth century. Invasion of Celtic Britain by Low-German tribes, Angles, Saxons, etc., just before the downfall of Rome, — formation of various petty kingdoms, — all become practically united as England, in the early part of the . 9th century, under Egbert. The tirst barbarian kingdom of the Visigoths underOdoacer established A. n. 476, —overthrown in less thantwenty years by the Ostrogoths under Theodoric,—Ostrogothic kingdom lasts sixty years, — then over-thrown by the Eastern empire, and-ruled by a ByzantineExarch, — the Lombards take possession of all North-ern Italy, — and the Lombard kings and the rule Italy till the time of Charlemagne. EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE. 233 T L ^ rJ T /. (/> o O ?^
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