Explain the role of Germanic peoples in the shifting political environment of the Early Middle Ages.

Explain the role of Germanic peoples in the shifting political environment of the Early Middle Ages.

A) How did various Germanic groups create culturally hybridized Germanic-Roman kingdoms within the former Western Roman Empire? 
B) How did Charlemagne permanently alter the relationship between the East and the West? 
C) How did the Norse peoples accelerate the disintegration of the Carolingian world and the creation of high medieval culture?