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Start of the Middle Ages
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The King of the Franks, Clovis, defat of the visigoths at Vouillé
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The first caliphs were members of Muhammad´s family.There was great territorial expansion.
They controlled the Arabian Peninsula.
They defeated the Byzantine empire.
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In the Umayyad dynasty they failed to conquer Constantinolple stopped by the Franks.
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The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel (Pippin the Younger's father) defeated the muslims at Poitier and stopped their expansion in Europe
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After another civil war, the position of caliph passed to the Abbasid dynasty, who moved the capital to baghadad.
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Pippin the Younger became king of the Franks
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Charlemagne died and his son Louis the Pious succeeded him
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Louis' sons divided up the empire in the Treaty of Verdun
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The German Emperor Otto I defeated the Magyars and Slavs and occupied the whole of Central Europe and part of Italy. He stabilished the Holy Roman Empire.
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Sailors and muslim merchants spread Islam beyond the borders of the caliphate following trade routes.
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