Western Civilization I / Unit 10 WC1 0917 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Saracens, Magyars, and Lechfeld, 955
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The idea
After the Carolingians, disorder lasted to at least eleven hundred. Saracen raiders took Sicily in the ninth century; Magyar horsemen raided from the east in the tenth until Otto I beat them at Lechfeld in nine fifty-five, a witness name, and they settled in Hungary.
In practice
Three invaders: Saracens, Magyars, Vikings.
Where people slip
The anchor omits Lechfeld's name. The witness supplies it.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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