| The early events of Jaffna by the
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| | were destroyed by similar means.
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| Portuguese recalled the historical events
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| | The best documented form of Germanic
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| in the Roman era Europe and West Asia.
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| | paganism, the10th and 11th century Norse
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| In the course of the centuries the Roman
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| | paganism with other European and
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| Empire steered into a heavy and lasting
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| | West-Asian pagan traditions, such as
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| crisis.
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| | Finnish, Slavic, Baltic, Roman and Greek
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| Constant wars for the defense of borders,
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| | were lost from the practice.
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| rising military expenditure, excessive
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| | The Franks, Alamanni, Anglo-Saxons,
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| taxes, repressive laws, rampantly growing
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| | Saxons and Frisians were christianized
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| bureaucracy and all-present corruption -
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| | forcibly between the 6th and the 8th
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| all this undermined the loyalty of the
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| | century.
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| Romans and provincial residents to the
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| | The Frankish King Charlemagne conquered
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| Roman state.
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| | the Germanic tribesmen and won in all
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| The taxes were so high that many citizens
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| | eighteen battles which were fought in the
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| had to work for the state for most of the
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| | areas of northwestern Germany. The result
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| year, while only a little was left for
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| | was the incorporation of Saxony into the
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| themselves. The Roman citizens had turned
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| | Frankish realm and their conversion from
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| into slaves of the state and they didn't
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| | paganism to Christianity.
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| care after sometime whether their ruler
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| | The King Charlemagne allegedly ordered at
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| and oppressor was a Roman or a victorious
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| | the Blood court of Verden to behead 4,500
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| Germanic conqueror.
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| | Saxons who had been caught practising
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| Similarily destructive was the new
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| | paganism after converting to
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| religion, Christianity, starting from 313
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| | Christianity. The massacre led to two
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| A.D., which disapproved of the old
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| | straight years of constant warfare
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| ideals. In 390, Roman emperor Theodosius
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| | (783-785). In 783, battles in Saxony saw
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| banned the old Pagan religion. The
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| | Saxon women throw themselves barebreasted
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| worship of gods of Jupiter, Juno,
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| | into battle. One of them was Fastrada,
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| Minerva, Venus and Mars was declared a
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| | daughter of a Saxon count, who, in 784,
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| crime. Led by their bishops, Christian
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| | became Charlemagne's fourth wife and
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| mobs destroyed most of the pagan temples,
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| | gradually the Franks gained the upper
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| the most beautiful buildings of ancient
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| | hand in Saxony.
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| times, massacred philosophers and
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| | In 800 A.D. Charlemagne's authority in
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| intellectuals, and destroyed the large
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| | Western Europe was further increased by
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| library of Alexandria.
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| | his coronation as emperor in Rome and by
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| Even the Germanic paganism, the religion
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| | the establishment of Holy Roman Empire.
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| and mythology of the ancient Germanic
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| | He further increased his ruthless
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| nations with the principal gods Odin,
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| | christianisation of people who were
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| Thor and Tyr preceding Christianization
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| | practising Paganism.
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