Western Civilization I / Unit 12 WC1 1116 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Avignon, 1309 to 1377: The Babylonian Captivity
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The idea
Clement V, a Frenchman elected in thirteen oh five, moved the papacy to Avignon in thirteen oh nine, the witness's date, away from Rome's street-fighting families. Popes stayed until thirteen seventy-seven, influenced by French politics; the anchor's one hundred thirteen of one hundred thirty-four cardinals were French.
In practice
The name from the Jews' Babylonian exile.
Where people slip
Influenced, not controlled, the anchor says.
Your place on the trail
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