Charlemagne

Charlemagne, whose real name was Charles and adopt the word le Magne to describe him as great. He had little book learning; he tried in his old age to learn writing, but never quite succeeded. Charlemagne was obsessed with the Roman Empire and wanted to be one of Roman's empire. He was appointed by the Pope as the church protector, which he always did first. Charlemagne build programs to support scholarship and education. Charlemagne expended the Carolingian Empire by massive territorial expansion. Charlemagne began his acquisition by first invading Italy, and gain control of the Lombard Kings. After capturing northern Italy he moved to battle against the Saxons. The fighting took over thirty-years, but Charlemagne was triumph and converted the Saxon people to Christianity by having large baptisms at point of sword. While battling the Saxons, Charlemagne began a campaigned against the Avars, who at once had fought the Byzantines. To continue his expansion, he concentrated to the southeast that leads to al-Andalus. Here was he suffered his first defeat, and was face to set-up a military buffer region between al-Andalus and his own kingdom. The region controlled by Charlemagne during the 790,s was huge, whose stretched eastward to the Saale river, southeast to what is now know Austria, and south to Spain and Italy. To centralize his power he built a capital city at Aachen,