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Throughout most of the centuries leading up to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church had been wracked by corruption and hypocricy. The sale of bishoprics and other forms of simony were widespread, with occasional popes attempting with limited success to stamp out these practices. The sale of bishoprics in Germany, and the aggressive marketing of indulgences, partly to pay the debt incurred by those sales, were the trigger for the Reformation.

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Throughout most of the centuries leading up to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church had been wracked by corruption and hypocricy. The sale of bishoprics and other forms of simony were widespread, with occasional popes attempting with limited success to stamp out these practices. The sale of bishoprics in Germany, and the aggressive marketing of indulgences, partly to pay the debt incurred by those sales, were the trigger for the Reformation.

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Until 1871, there was no "Germany." The area that became Germany was a lose colection of several several hundred kingdoms, principalities, duchies, bishoprics, fiefdoms and independent cities and towns.

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The power of the Holy Roman Emperor was limited by the power of the princes and the bishops of the empire. The Roman Empire was a collection of principalities, duchies, bishoprics and city-states. It comprised more than 300 states

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Otto found time to strengthen and to extend the frontiers of the kingdom. In the east the margraves Gero and Hermann Billung were successful against the Slavs, and their gains were consolidated by the founding of the Monastery of St. Maurice in Magdeburg, in 937, and of two bishoprics, in 948.

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No, Charlemagne did not invent school. He did, however, support education and promoted learning throughout his empire by establishing a palace school for educating his own children and nobles. He also encouraged the creation of schools in monasteries and bishoprics to improve literacy among clergy and nobility.

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