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How did Charlemagne correspond with his Germanic neighbors/enemies such as the Saxons and Lombards? Did he use Latin? Were their mother languages still intelligible?
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The Byzantines asked Catholic Europe for help taking back their territory. Did they expect the Crusaders to just hand over the land without compensation?
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