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| Rye cultivation what social/political consequences? |
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| Rye would mature faster and grow, while wheat and barley would freeze in the winter, but rye had less of a turnout of crop, so this meant fewer landlords and serfs could be provided for. |
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| Franks and Germans were different from other invaders |
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| They, unlike normal people, came in as settlers in the new land and would do the work to clear forests, and set up places which had not been cultivated before. |
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| Clovis was started by the franks, originally a petty tribal chieftains, defeating rival chieftains until he was the last one left and he ruled the Frank kingdom, extending his power everywhere |
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| Used Constantinople as a capital; most powerful economic state an military force in all of Europe; kept central power of Europe until 1453. |
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