Medieval students often sat together on the floor, scrawling notes from lessons using a bone or ivory stylus on wooden tablets coated with green or black wax. Knights were also educated and looked down upon if they could not read and write.
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Charlemagne also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was the founder of the Carolingian Empire, Becoming King of the Franks in 768 following the death of his father, Through his military conquests, he expanded his kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. Called the "Father of Europe" Charlemagne's empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. Charlemagne also encourage education, During the 800s, he realized his empire needed educated people if it was to survive, and he turned to the Catholic Church as the source of such education, every cathedral was to establish a school to provide a free education to every boy who had the intelligence to follow a demanding course of study.
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