Justinian Code was the codification of Roman law in 534
Charles the Bald of the Franks was one of the powerful Frankish kings (714)
Germany had more than one hundred princedoms
The Holy Roman Empire to the west was in France (Gaul)
The Carolingian Empire fought the Northmen and Islamics (768-814)
Charles the Mayne fought against the Saxons in 772 in Lombardy
Charlemayne fought against the Spainards and installed
Catholicism in the Holy Roman Empire
All this time the Mongols were migrating from the north east out of
the Gobi Desert and settling in China, Russia, and Mogolia
Russia had the House of Rurik as its tsars starting in 862-879
Russian rulers ruled with an iron fist in Moscow and the old capital Kiev
