Kim de Greef
Dr. Petrovich
Humanities Midterm
Mandatory Question #1:
I believe in my personal opinion, that it was not ethical for Charlemagne to force people to become Christians. But, on his standpoint, I believe that he was trying to do the right thing. In lecture the professor discussed that Charlemagne started out as a Barbadian, until he decided to convert to Christianity. Charlemagne had such a big impact that some people still even call him “The Father of Europe”.
When I first heard about Charlemagne’s ruling in class, I instantly thought of Hitler’s dictatorship. Because of how Hitler killed thousands of innocent people just because they were Jews. With this being said; Charlemagne did a similar thing. In order for Charlemagne to carry out this act, he started attending many military campaigns for the first three decades. Having an urge to spread Christianity, he fulfilled his wish by leading a massive army.
After a period of time, he became king and conquered the Lombard’s, Avars, and Bavaria. Charlemagne has had at least five wives
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She kept telling me that her husband was being a pain in the butt, and she has always had an eye for another guy. But, by law you have to be faithful to your other spouse, so she couldn’t do anything about it. A roman wife was generally understood as a helper or companion, so while the husbands were working the wife was taking care of the household. While everyone was at school, I decided to see what school would be like. Poetry was mostly studied, and only some attention was given to physics, astronomy, geography, etc. But, education was only in the hands of the parents themselves. Hearing my stomach growl, I immediately came to a conclusion that Romans lack variation of foods. There sure was a lot of wine drinking, although the women weren’t really allowed to, there was always some type of wine on the