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| Christian saint who wrote the City of God and the Confessions | |
| heresy that held that Jesus was distinct from God, denounced at Council of Nicaea | |
| Pope who crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor | |
| Great church of Constantinople, built by Justinian I | |
| Byzantine title for the emperor, first used in a letter to Maurice and adopted in coinage by Leo III | |
| Year of the great siege of Constantinople by the Avars, Slavs, and Sassanians | |
| Gelimer was the last ruler of this kingdom before he was defeated by Belisarius in 533 | |
| Frankish dynasty of Childeric I and Clovis | |
| Visigothic king who sacked Rome in 410 | |
| Roman general who defeated Attila at the Battle of Chalons | |
| Legendary Visigothic teenager whose affair with King Roderic led to the rebellion that opened the door for the Muslim conquest of Spain | |
| Eastern Roman emperor who lost a huge fleet attempting to retake Africa from the Vandals | |
| Church council of 451 that denounced Monophysites | |
| Eastern Roman empress who deposed her own son, blinding him | |
| Sassanid emperor who was allied with Maurice, invaded the Byzantine empire after the coup of Phokas | |
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| This sister of Valentinian III begged for help from Attila, giving the Hun a pretext for invading | |
| Short-lived Roman 'kingdom' in Gaul, founded by Aegidius, that outlasted the Western empire | |
| Caliph who founded Baghdad in 762, launched project to translate Greek texts into Arabic | |
| Historian who is our main source on the age of Justinian | |
| Caliphate founded by Mu'awiya I in 661, with its capital in Damascus | |
| Tribe that overran Italy right after the Byzantines had wrested it back from the Goths | |
| Neoplatonist mathematician who was murdered by a mob in Alexandria in 415 | |
| Ostrogoth who deposed the last Roman emperor in the West | |
| Pope who appealed to Attila to leave Italy | |
| Battle in 636 in which Muslims conquered Syria and Palestine | |
| Roman philosopher who served the Ostrogoths and wrote the Consolation of Philosophy around the year 524 | |
| Eastern Roman emperor who reconquered Africa and Italy and who survived the plague in the 540s | |
| Year the Vandals, Alans, and Suebi crossed the Rhine and began overrunning the Western empire | |
| Traditionally considered the last Western Roman emperor | |
| Turkic nomads who overran the Balkans, established a capital at Pliska, and (under Khan Krum) destroyed the Byzantine force led by Nikephoros I | |
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