Identifier: worldsstoryhisto07tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as followed by some years ofdissension and warfare. The vast kingdom was then di-vided among his grandsons; but it was more than a centuryafter his death before a successor was found at all worthy ofthe title which he had borne as head of the Roman Empire.This was Otho I, who came to the throne in 936. His father,known as Henry the Fowler, had left a federated state, andhe set to work to make it a strong and united kingdom. Oneof his chief troubles arose from the encroachments of theSlavs who lived between the Oder and the Elbe. The workof suppressing them was put into the hands of the MargraveGero, a bold and loyal vassal. Geros energy brought aboutthe submission of the tribes north of Bohemia between theOder and the Middle Elbe, and won him a place as a fabu-lous hero in the Nibelungenlied. In the illustration, the conquered peoples are coming be-fore the margrave, and, in accordance with the missionaryenterprise of the day, he is offering them their choice betweenbaptism and death.
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CHARLEMAGNE OVERCOMES THE SAXONS They now had no cause for fear lest Charles might killtheir children, if their fathers and kindred violated thetreaty. As far as concerned Saxon interests, these nobleyouths, who were made into Frank Christians, were inthe eyes of every good Saxon regarded as lost. Charlesput none of these hostages to death when the Saxonsagain revolted. (This was only the beginning of Charlemagnes wars withthe Saxons. While he was in their country, they submitted;but as soon as he had left it, they revolted. A brave chiefcalled Widukind became the leader. More than thirty yearspassed before these lovers of freedom were subdued. Whenthis had once come to pass, however, and they had sub-mitted to baptism, Charlemagne recognized their excellentqualities. They became an important part of the kingdom.Soon they were the strength of all the German races, and notlong after the days of their conqueror had passed, a Saxonsovereign wore the crown of the Empire. The Editor.) THE

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