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| Locally self sufficient heavy cavalry |
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| The knights took up as lords after the descendants of Charlemagne failed. They would be able to call their own people to arms quickly, while also asking for backup from multiple other people. |
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| In 226 C.E., the Parthian kings were replaced by a new Sassanian Dynasty. This was usually called New Persian Empire because the Sassanians took the empires of Darius and Xerxes as their model. |
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| Byzantium, under Justinian |
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| The empire launched a systematic effort to regain control of the lost western provinces. Recovered North Africa, Italy, and part of Spain. |
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| Consists of three different assemblies - Comitia Curiata voted on laws; Comitia Centuriata voted on election of magistrates who had executive power; and the Concilium plebis, which counterbalanced the uneven distribution of power and wealth among the people, i.e. the plebs' own assembly. CP elected tribunes of the people who could veto any action by any other magistrate. There is also a Senate. |
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