History Matters
Almost everything we know about the world of antiquity, we only know because Charlemagne had everything he could find from the ancient world, the classical worlds of Greece & Rome, copied, over & over again. Charlemagne had copies distributed widely, throughout western Europe, at just the time they were needed.
The barbarians that had swept thru Europe, burned all the books they found, & did all the horrible things barbarians do when they sack & burn a civilisation to the ground. Enslaving the people, destroying as much as they could, of infrastructure, as we call it today.
Western Civilisation, was saved, kept out of reach of the barbarians, by acts like this of Charlemagne's, the preserving of knowledge in books, of langauges, songs remembered by the bards & passed down thru centuries of barbarian rule.
So, I like to thank Charlemagne, for this noble act of conservation. Without it, western civilisation in its 'modern' sense, may never have had the chance to exist.