Examples of Donation of Pepin in the following topics:
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- Pepin also intervened in favor of the papacy of Stephen II against the Lombards in Italy.
- He was able to secure several cities, which he then gave to the pope as part of the Donation of Pepin.
- The Byzantines, keen to make good relations with the growing power of the Frankish empire, gave Pepin the title of Patricius.
- Pepin was, however, troubled by the relentless revolts of the Saxons and the Bavarians.
- Although unquestionably one of the most powerful and successful rulers of his time, Pepin's reign is largely overshadowed by that of his more famous son.
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- Charlemagne is considered the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the actions he took to bring Europe out of turmoil.
- Charlemagne was the oldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon.
- Charles received Pepin's original share as Mayor—the outer parts of the kingdom bordering on the sea, namely Neustria, western Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia—while Carloman was awarded his uncle's former share, the inner parts—southern Austrasia, Septimania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence, and Swabia, lands bordering Italy.
- Adrian sent ambassadors to Charlemagne in the autumn, requesting he enforce the policies of his father, Pepin.
- Charlemagne's accomplishments restored much of the unity of the old Roman Empire and paved the way for the development of modern Europe.
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- He was the main initiator and proponent of the "Carolingian Renaissance," the first of three medieval renaissances.
- The pan-European nature of Charlemagne's influence is indicated by the origins of many of the men who worked for him: Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon from York; Theodulf, a Visigoth, probably from Septimania; Paul the Deacon, a Lombard; Peter of Pisa and Paulinus of Aquileia, both Italians; and Angilbert, Angilram, Einhard, and Waldo of Reichenau, Franks.
- Pursuing his father's reforms, Charlemagne abolished the monetary system based on the gold sou, and he and the Anglo-Saxon King Offa of Mercia took up the system set in place by Pepin.
- Unlike his father, Pepin, and uncle Carloman, Charlemagne expanded the reform program of the church.
- Charlemagne also created two sub-kingdoms in Aquitaine and Italy, ruled by his sons Louis and Pepin respectively.
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- The Carolingian dynasty began with Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel, but began its official reign with Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short, displacing the Merovingian dynasty.
- Charlemagne's death in 814 began an extended period of fragmentation and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the territories of France and Germany.
- In the late 9th century, however, the lack of suitable adults among the Carolingians necessitated the rise of Arnulf of Carinthia, an illegitimate child of a legitimate Carolingian king.
- The Carolingians were displaced in most of the regna of the Empire in 888.
- Carolingian family tree, from the Chronicon Universale of Ekkehard of Aura, 12th century
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- During the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, and throughout the Middle Ages, the office of pope not only gained supremacy over the entire Christian Church but also developed political power rivaling that of the secular rulers of Europe.
- The creation of the term "papal supremacy" dates back to the 6th century, at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which was the beginning of the rise of the bishops of Rome to not just the position religious authority, but the power to be the ultimate ruler of the kingdoms within the Christian community (Christendom), which it has since retained.
- In 189, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus's Against Heresies: "With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree ... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition."
- With the exception of Pope Martin I, no pope during this period questioned the authority of the Byzantine monarch to confirm the election of the bishop of Rome before consecration could occur.
- The popes finally sought support from the Frankish rulers of the West and received from the Frankish king Pepin The Short the first part of the Italian territories later known as the Papal States.
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- Although his contemporaries found him crude and obnoxious, he foreshadowed the later persecution of Buddhism in the Tang, as well as the revival of Confucian theory with the rise of Neo-Confucianism of the Song dynasty.
- People bidding for office would have monks from Buddhist temples pray for them in public in return for cash donations or gifts if the person was selected.
- This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous people's repentances, leaving the donations on the monastery's premise.
- Although the monastery was generous in donations, Emperor Xuanzong issued a decree abolishing their treasury on grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent.
- Analyze why the emperors of the Tang dynasty were interested in the promotion of certain religions
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- The Fall of the Kassite Dynasty and the Rise of the Second Dynasty of Isin
- Nebuchadnezzar I (1124-1103 BCE) was the most famous ruler of the Second Dynasty of Isin.
- His construction activities are memorialized in building inscriptions of the Ekituš-ḫegal-tila, the temple of Adad in Babylon, and on bricks from the temple of Enlil in Nippur.
- A late Babylonian inventory lists his donations of gold vessels in Ur.
- These artifacts evidence the dynasty's power as builders, craftsmen, and managers of the business of the empire.
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- While the early part of Ashoka's reign was apparently quite bloodthirsty, he became a follower of the Buddha's teachings after his conquest of Kalinga on the east coast of India in the present-day states of Odisha and North Coastal Andhra Pradesh.
- Mauryan India also enjoyed an era of social harmony, religious transformation, and expansion of the sciences and of knowledge.
- Chandragupta Maurya's embrace of Jainism increased social and religious renewal and reform across his society, while Ashoka's embrace of Buddhism has been said to have been the foundation of the reign of social and political peace and non-violence across all of India.
- He gave donations to viharas and mathas.
- The use of Buddhist sources in reconstructing the life of Ashoka has had a strong influence on perceptions of Ashoka, as well as the interpretations of his Edicts.
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- The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried under metres of stone and lava, killing thousands of citizens.
- Titus appointed two ex-consuls to organise and coordinate the relief effort, while personally donating large amounts of money from the imperial treasury to aid the victims of the volcano.
- Today, it is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The objects that lay beneath the city have been preserved for centuries because of the lack of air and moisture.
- Plaster casts of victims still in situ; many casts are in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
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- While astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, its development during the period of the Scientific Revolution entirely
transformed the views of society about nature.
- Forty five years after the publication of De Revolutionibus, the astronomer Tycho Brahe went so far as to construct a cosmology precisely equivalent to that of Copernicus, but with the Earth held fixed in the center of the celestial sphere instead of the Sun.
- It contains the first two of his eponymous three laws of planetary motion (in 1619, the third law was published).
- By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from his mathematical description of gravity, and then using the same principles to account for the trajectories of comets, the tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and other phenomena, Newton removed the last doubts about the validity of the heliocentric model of the cosmos.
- Currently the painting is in the collection of the Jagiellonian University of Cracow, which purchased it from a private owner with money donated by the Polish public.