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Answer
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Founder of the empire
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Charlemagne
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The above was the king of this kingdom before founding the empire
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Kingdom of the Franks
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Pope who crowned him the Holy Roman Emperor
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Pope Leo III
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Bavarian city that is often referred to as the "unofficial capital" of the empire
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Nuremberg
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Protestant reformer who nailed 95 theses on a church door
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Martin Luther
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City where the first university in the world was established in 1088
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Bologna
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War famously fought between and Modena the above in 1325
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War of the Bucket
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"Great" emperor who unified the German tribes
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Otto I
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European capital the Ottomans besieged, but fail to capture, in 1529 and 1683
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Vienna
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War that was fought against almost the entire Europe between 1618–48
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Thirty Years' War
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Royal family that was the ruling dynasty of the empire from 1452 till its end in 1806
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Habsburg
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First emperor from that royal family
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Frederick III
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What Johannes Gutenberg invented
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Printing Press
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The most important conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe
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Investiture Controversy
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City in which the Pope resided between 1309–76
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Avignon
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Official title of the Holy Roman Emperors, in English
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Emperor of the Romans
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Confederation of merchant cities along the Baltic and North Seas
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Hanseatic League
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City that was the most populous in the empire by the year 1600
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Prague
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Factions that supported either the Emperor or the Pope in the Italian city-states
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Guelphs / Ghibellines
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General who finally ended the empire in 1806 after the Battle of Austerlitz
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Napoleon
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French philosopher who famously said: "the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"
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Voltaire
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