Question: when did the region of Western Europe where the pope had influence take control of the country where the most australopithecus fossils have been ?found

The ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Empire survived the movements and invasions in the west mostly intact, but the papacy was little regarded, and few of the western bishops looked to the bishop of Rome for religious or political leadership. Many of the popes prior to 750 were more concerned with Byzantine affairs and eastern theological controversies. The only part of Western Europe where the papacy had influence was Britain, where Gregory had sent the Gregorian mission in 597 to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. The register, or archived copies of the letters, of Pope Gregory the Great (pope 590–604) survived, and of those more than 850 letters, the vast majority were concerned with affairs in Italy or Constantinople. Irish missionaries were most active in Western Europe between the 5th and the 7th centuries, going first to England and Scotland and then on to the continent. Under such monks as Columba (d. 597) and Columbanus (d. 615), they founded monasteries, taught in Latin and Greek, and authored secular and religious works. <SEP> on 3 january 993, pope john xv became the first pope to proclaim a person a ``saint ''from outside the diocese of rome: on the petition of the german ruler, he had canonized bishop ulrich of augsburg. before that time, the popular`` cults'', or venerations, of saints had been local and spontaneous and were confirmed by the local bishop. pope john xviii subsequently permitted a cult of five polish martyrs. pope benedict viii later declared the armenian hermit symeon to be a saint, but it was not until the pontificate of pope innocent iii that the popes reserved to themselves the exclusive authority to canonize saints, so that local bishops needed the confirmation of the pope. walter of pontoise was the last person in western europe to be canonized by an authority other than the pope: hugh de boves, the archbishop of rouen, canonized him in 1153. thenceforth a decree of pope alexander iii in 1170 reserved the prerogative of canonization to the pope, in so far as the latin church was concerned. <SEP> The country became a self - governing nation state within the British Empire, in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. Following the defeat of the Boers in the Anglo - Boer or South African War (1899 -- 1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. The dominion came to an end on 31 May 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named Republic of South Africa. A republican constitution was adopted. <SEP> the fremouw formation is a triassic-age rock formation in the transantarctic mountains of antarctica. fossils of prehistoric reptiles and amphibians have been found in the formation. fossilized trees have also been found. the formation's beds were deposited along the banks of rivers and on floodplains. during the triassic, the area would have been a riparian forest at 70–75°s latitude. <SEP> It is now called ``Little Foot ''and it is probably around three million years old. It was named Australopithecus prometheus which has since been placed within A. africanus. Then, in 1997, an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton with skull was found in the Sterkfontein caves of Gauteng, South Africa. Other fossil remains found in the same cave in 2008 were named Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.9 million years ago. A. africanus probably evolved into A. sediba, which some scientists think may have evolved into H. erectus, though this is heavily disputed.