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On 25 December 800, Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne the “Emperor of the West” in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In this way Charlemagne and Leo attempted to revive the glories of the Roman Empire and found what would later came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire, which survived from 1254 to 1806. This empire reflected the desire to merge the formerly barbaric Germans with Christian and Roman elements into a rising new civilization, Western Civilization. A distinct Western (read European) civilization took root, but it was centuries away from its maturation.