Charlemagne - Part 2: Francia Reforms

Second part of the great tale of Charlemagne. This is focused on how he changed his conquered lands!

Inspiration: thecajuncuththroat
Game(entire parts): Rome total war Barbarian Invasion
Pictures: RTW BI, and M&B Concept Art, others are from google.
Music: Prometory - Trevor Jones, others from Basil Poudeoris and Trevor Jones.
ENJOY!

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[Zorro11144]

Nice video about Charlemagne, he also wanted to unite his empire with the Byzantine empire and revive the Roman empire. Charlamagne indeed tried to make the 1st enlightment in western Europe.

[Strategos300]

@Zorro11144 wow, very interesting.. I didn't know that.

[gato123452]

@Strategos300 I'm confused, so Holy Roman Empire came to power after Charlemagne died? and if so what was the Empire called that Charlemagne ruled?

[Strategos300]

@gato123452 The Holy Roman Empire became a powerful "union" (if you wish) in the East, in todays Germany. The Empire Charlemagne ruled was "Francia", but when it split the Empire in the West was called "France/Francia" and in the East "The Holy Roman Empire".

[CelticMagne]

ALL ARYANS UNITE

Celts, Angles, Saxons, Franks, Frisians, Lombards, Bavarians,Flems, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, Jutes, Danes, Norse, Viking, Gael, Iberian,Thuringians, Finns, Dacians, Thracians, Balts, Etruscans, Britons, .

We united once before in the cause of our blood and our beloved soil of Europe. Now the cause of your blood, your race, your ancestral land, the future of your descendants is at it's most perilous.

Arise Aryans of Europe, it is time to defend your land once and for all.

[HolyknightVader999]

@Zorro11144 then again JUSTINIAN COULD HAVE GIVEN BELISARIUS A LARGE ENOUGH ARMY TO TAKE SASSINID PERSIA OUT OF THE GAME FOREVER. The general managed to defeat the Sassinids all the time DESPITE JUSTINIAN NOT GIVING HIM ENOUGH MEN. Justinian thought Belisarius might overthrow him so he always starved the general of troops; so Belisarius could've logically taken all of Persia with a large enough army. Then Justinian could use the Silk road's riches to fund his wars in the west.

[HolyknightVader999]

@Zorro11144 No, since the Pope was the spiritual successor of Peter and Jesus did NOT create a two-man leadership board. He said: "You are Peter, and upon this rock I shall build my Church" which meant that peter and his successors are the leaders of the Christian community, just as the other bishops succeeded the Apostles. The Byzantines betrayed the Third Crusade by signing on with the Muslims. Which was why the Crusaders took Cyprus; also in the Second Crusade, they didn't help.

[Zorro11144]

@HolyknightVader999 The Sassanid king found that excuse to attack the Byzantines and take anatolia syria palestine and egypt. The Byzantines and the persians were always at war with each other Belisarius and Narses stopped them many times. Heraclius also beated them and retook the holy cross from them.

[Zorro11144]

@HolyknightVader999 The Pope and the Patriarch were equally leaders of Christianity until the pope out of Greed turned against the patriarch and betrayed him.And the protestants left the pope because he was very tyranic and absolute.The Crusades aimed Constantinople and werent made to help the Byzantine but Emperor Alexius was clever and managed to take the Crusaders in his side. Tell me how the Byzantines betrayed the Crusaders? The truth is that the Crusaders first attacked

[HolyknightVader999]

@Zorro11144 Actually, the Muslims enlisted their help against the Third Crusade; and the crusaders took Cyprus for vengeance. Also, had the Empire not allowed Basil II's invincible army to atrophy, then there would be no need for the Crusades; since they would have won Manzikert. But its bureaucracy and dynastic affairs shot Byzantium in the foot more than anything else.

[HolyknightVader999]

@Zorro11144 He did. Since he was not only a son in law of Maurice; he was his friend and ally in the east. If you had your own kingdom and your wife was daughter to a king of another state; and he gets canned, your wife would tell you to avenge her father. It was the Byzantines' retarded dynastic struggles that allowed the Sassinids, the Muslims, and the Crusaders to destroy it.

[HolyknightVader999]

@Zorro11144 The Pope was a puppet of the Eastern Emperor UNTIL he was abandoned to the Lombards. The Byzantines could have secured his safety by co-governing Italy with the Franks or more simply, helping the pope to move to Constantinople. The pope was the legitimate leader of the Christian community since it was his job to be the rock which Christ built upon His church. It was the Pope who remained loyal to the arts of the icons; it was he who as truly orthodox.