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Medieval Europe, the dark ages, had one major ruler, who everyone thought was the best...Charlemagne. Charlamagne did multiple things to help the economy. Charlemagne also did some things for himself. One thing that he did for the economy was converting all of his subjects to Christianity. Another thing that he did was he spent most of his reign in military campaigns. Also he declared that any of the Saxons that he captured( only if they would not get baptised ) would be sentenced to death. He had multiple wives and possibly had up to eighteen children. He died in 814 in January. He was buried at the cathedral in Aachen. Some of the things that he would do for himself was wake up at around three a.m. and would make his servants wake up with

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