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During the battle, the Franks defeated the Islamic army and Emir Abd er Rahman was killed. This battle stopped the advance of Islam from the Iberian peninsula. It halted the Islamic conquests, and preserved Christianity, during a period in which Islam was running the old Roman and Persian Empires. This ties in with the theme state-building, expansion and conflict because the differences between the to sides create conflict and then battles.
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Through his conquests, he took down the Saxons and pushed his frontier into Spain. He expanded his kingdom into an empire that went into Western and Central Europe.
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The Norman and French army of Duke William of Normandy against the Saxon army of King Harold of England.
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In 1099 Jeruselum fell to the crusaders , who then began their conquest into christian states.
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The fourth crusade went badly astray when the crusaders conquered Constantinople and installed a Roman Catholic regimine.