| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:historical_period 
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                                | gptkbp:alsoKnownAs | gptkb:Early_Middle_Ages gptkb:Dark_Ages
 
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                                | gptkbp:characterizedBy | gptkb:Carolingian_Empire gptkb:Viking_invasions
 Islamic expansion
 spread of Christianity
 rise of Germanic kingdoms
 decline of Western Roman Empire
 Byzantine Empire
 
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                                | gptkbp:endDate | c. 1000 AD 
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                                | gptkbp:followedBy | gptkb:High_Middle_Ages 
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                                | gptkbp:location | gptkb:Europe 
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                                | gptkbp:notableCategory | gptkb:monastery gptkb:Gothic_architecture
 feudalism
 manorialism
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | gptkb:Christianization_of_Europe gptkb:Migration_Period
 gptkb:Coronation_of_Charlemagne
 gptkb:Battle_of_Hastings_(1066)
 gptkb:Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire
 gptkb:Sack_of_Rome_(410)
 gptkb:Viking_raids
 gptkb:Treaty_of_Verdun
 gptkb:Battle_of_Tours
 gptkb:Iconoclasm
 gptkb:Council_of_Nicaea_(787)
 gptkb:Great_Schism_(1054)
 Establishment of feudalism
 Formation of Papal States
 Rise of monastic orders
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableFor | gptkb:Carolingian_dynasty gptkb:Ottonian_dynasty
 gptkb:Byzantine
 gptkb:Merovingian_dynasty
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableInstitution | gptkb:Arianism gptkb:Christianity
 gptkb:Islam
 gptkb:mythology
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableLanguage | gptkb:Greek gptkb:Latin
 gptkb:Old_French
 gptkb:Old_High_German
 gptkb:Old_English
 gptkb:Celtic_languages
 gptkb:Old_Norse
 Gothic
 
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                                | gptkbp:notablePerson | gptkb:Charlemagne gptkb:Clovis_I
 gptkb:Justinian_I
 gptkb:Otto_I
 gptkb:Alcuin_of_York
 gptkb:Alfred_the_Great
 gptkb:Charles_Martel
 gptkb:Gregory_the_Great
 
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                                | gptkbp:notablePlace | gptkb:Lindisfarne_Gospels gptkb:Carolingian_minuscule
 gptkb:Book_of_Kells
 gptkb:Sutton_Hoo_ship_burial
 gptkb:Codex_Amiatinus
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableRuler | gptkb:Holy_Roman_Empire gptkb:Kingdom_of_the_Franks
 gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_England
 gptkb:Visigothic_Kingdom
 gptkb:Kingdom_of_the_Lombards
 gptkb:Kingdom_of_the_Ostrogoths
 gptkb:Kingdom_of_the_Visigoths
 gptkb:Kingdom_of_Asturias
 gptkb:Frankish_Kingdom
 gptkb:Lombard_Kingdom
 gptkb:Kingdom_of_the_Vandals
 Byzantine Empire
 
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                                | gptkbp:precededBy | gptkb:Late_Antiquity 
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                                | gptkbp:startDate | c. 500 AD 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Roman_Barbarians:_The_Royal_Court_and_Culture_in_the_Early_Medieval_West 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Early Medieval Europe 
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