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This era was defined by civilizations like the Egyptians, the Greeks, and other powerful entities like the Roman Empire.\n\nBut none of these powerful civilizations were able to last forever. The Greeks and the Egyptians were actually conquered by the Roman Empire in 146 BCE and 30 BCE respectively. As for the Roman Empire, their capital in Rome was overthrown by barbarian forces from northern Europe in 476 CE.\n\nThe fall of Rome is actually used by modern historians to mark the end of the ancient period. After that, the world entered the medieval period: a brand new chapter of history.\n\nIn a lot of ways, the medieval period was different to the ancient period. But some things never change: people still went to war.","d8c1abf5-2cc6-4ed0-800d-f39b5c8ff767",[50,58],{"id":51,"data":52,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"35b6895b-ccae-4bfb-b6a5-403e4170746f",{"type":53,"reviewType":35,"spacingBehaviour":35,"activeRecallQuestion":54,"activeRecallAnswers":56},11,[55],"What event do historians typically use to mark the end of the ancient period?",[57],"The fall of Rome",{"id":59,"data":60,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"22d62d5e-b5fc-4d5c-9361-ae69a72cc798",{"type":53,"reviewType":61,"spacingBehaviour":35,"matchPairsQuestion":62,"matchPairsPairs":64,"matchPairsShowExamples":6},6,[63],"Match the pairs below:",[65,68,71,74],{"left":66,"right":67,"direction":19},"Romans conquer the Greeks","146 BCE",{"left":69,"right":70,"direction":19},"Romans conquer the Egyptians","30 BCE",{"left":72,"right":73,"direction":19},"Rome overthrown by barbarians","476 CE",{"left":75,"right":76,"direction":19},"None of these","38 CE",{"id":78,"data":79,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19},"d6669031-949a-48a5-b978-b82b057cc692",{"type":35,"markdownContent":80,"audioMediaId":81},"When Rome collapsed, a number of different barbarian groups seized chunks of territory for themselves.\n\nOne of these groups was the Franks, who originated in modern day Germany. They established the kingdom of Francia, which roughly aligned with the region now known as France.\n\n![Graph](image://284e4f8c-7a29-4979-8750-f4673a75227a \"Barbarian kingdoms after fall of Rome (Francia in yellow). Image: Public domain\")\n\nToday, the word 'barbarian' has negative connotations. It's usually associated with brutish, uncivilized tribes. But that isn't really a fair description of these groups.\n\nFrancia, for example, was a well-run state with an impressive system of agriculture and commerce. It wasn't as sophisticated as the Roman Empire, but it wasn't brutish and uncivilized either.","39fae27d-dcaf-412d-afb9-200cdc529247",{"id":83,"data":84,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":87},"7d26e68f-63ff-4eaf-b906-126e2ac01283",{"type":35,"markdownContent":85,"audioMediaId":86},"The Franks were ruled by a line of kings called the Merovingians. These kings were renowned for an unusual custom: they let their hair grow long and thick. Supposedly, if a rival cut off a Merovingian’s hair, he would no longer be allowed to rule.\n\nReligion was important to the Merovingians. When their kingdom was first established, they practiced Arianism. This was technically a branch of Christianity, but generally condemned by the mainstream church, who thought it deviated too far from acceptable Christian doctrine.\n\nLater, the Merovingians converted to mainstream Christianity. The first king to do this was called Clovis I. His conversion was pushed by his wife, Clotilda, who had been raised as a mainstream Christian herself.\n\n![Graph](image://2eeb4762-fb7e-468e-ac37-6573b97f84c6 \"A depiction of the long-haired Clovis. Image: Public domain\")","0e0f51c8-7ca8-4f85-978b-e473ae6bf408",[88],{"id":89,"data":90,"type":53,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19},"11c925fd-1bbe-41f6-8e38-40f7c38abee3",{"type":53,"reviewType":35,"spacingBehaviour":35,"activeRecallQuestion":91,"activeRecallAnswers":93},[92],"Supposedly, if a rival cut off a Merovingian king's hair, what would happen?",[94],"He would no longer be allowed to rule",{"id":96,"data":97,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":100},"757a6fa7-09ba-403c-8701-f1c5aaae04fa",{"type":35,"markdownContent":98,"audioMediaId":99},"The long-haired successors of Clovis I continued to practice mainstream Christianity. Over time, this faith also started to spread through the general population of Francia.\n\nBy the end of the 7th century – about two hundred years after the fall of Rome – Francia was a fully fledged Christian kingdom.\n\nBut Christianity wasn't the only religion on the rise in the medieval period. While the Merovingians were ruling in the kingdom of Francia, a brand new faith was taking shape on the distant Arabian peninsula. The name of this faith was Islam – and it wouldn't be long until its followers started to knock on Francia's door.","6a838982-aacf-43e2-84e1-0d9866f95622",[101,120,131],{"id":102,"data":103,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"0774c872-ba1a-4f8c-a2e0-e7368d1c5848",{"type":53,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":104,"multiChoiceQuestion":108,"multiChoiceCorrect":110,"multiChoiceIncorrect":112,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":116,"matchPairsPairs":117},[105,106,107],"59b46144-8aa4-48a8-a50b-aeac943a5b49","45a1b275-bd58-4788-bba1-aaedd4773c29","d3f2b79d-8a20-47b1-96e2-6c72b9bef968",[109],"Which of these was a Frankish king?",[111],"Clovis I",[113,114,115],"Hippias","Darius the Great","Clotilda",[63],[118],{"left":111,"right":119,"direction":19},"Frankish king",{"id":107,"data":121,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":53,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":122,"multiChoiceQuestion":123,"multiChoiceCorrect":125,"multiChoiceIncorrect":126,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":127,"matchPairsPairs":128},[105,106,102],[124],"Which of these was a Frankish queen?",[115],[113,114,111],[63],[129],{"left":115,"right":130,"direction":19},"Frankish queen",{"id":132,"data":133,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"be0488b0-8f78-4306-8261-88c3343bb939",{"type":53,"reviewType":20,"spacingBehaviour":35,"clozeQuestion":134,"clozeWords":136},[135],"Clotilda persuaded Clovis I to convert from Arianism to mainstream Christianity.",[137],"Arianism",{"id":139,"data":140,"type":25,"version":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":142,"introPage":150,"pages":156},"7d291627-db8d-47e9-ad98-433b74a5e3d8",{"type":25,"title":141},"The rise of the Umayyads",{"id":143,"data":144,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"c13bb242-b09e-4a20-ab23-577f1b739037",{"type":19,"summary":145},[146,147,148,149],"Islam was founded by the Prophet Muhammad in 610 CE","The Umayyads won the struggle for succession in 661 CE, and established the Umayyad Caliphate","The Umayyads expanded their empire into Iran and North Africa, spreading Islam","By 714 CE, the Umayyads had conquered the Visigothic Kingdom in Spain",{"id":151,"data":152,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"85d1701e-2318-41d0-ba8f-937c8233ae40",{"type":39,"intro":153},[154,155],"Who were the Umayyads, and where did they come from?","How did the Umayyads manage to conquer the Visigothic Kingdom?",[157,179,199],{"id":158,"data":159,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":162},"cebb706c-3dd2-4a06-bc1c-81975477b229",{"type":35,"markdownContent":160,"audioMediaId":161},"Islam is younger than Christianity. The religion was founded by the Prophet Muhammad in 610 CE, while Christianity was established more than five-hundred years earlier.\n\nMuhammad was the official leader of the faith until he passed away in 632 CE. His death was followed by a struggle for succession, as three main groups all wanted to take over: the Rashiduns, the Kharijites, and the Umayyads.\n\nIn 661 CE, the Umayyads emerged victorious. And they didn't just want to be leaders of the faith. They also established a well-organized state, with a capital in the city of Damascus. This nation called itself the Umayyad Caliphate, and it flourished across the Arabian peninsula while the kingdom of Francia was still going strong in Europe.\n\n![Graph](image://80a287c6-8ab9-4372-a9f3-867b40d706f6 \"A depiction of Damascus. 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As they conquered these regions, they united people under the banner of Islam, with mass conversions taking place in many important cities and towns.\n\nThis expansion was quick and efficient. And by 710 CE, only the Strait of Gibraltar – a sliver of sea between Morocco and Spain – separated the edge of the Umayyad empire from the shores of Christian Europe.\n\n![Graph](image://bf77e2f9-d2e2-4d8c-81ee-60dddd41dca1 \"Umayyad territory in 710 CE. Image: Khateeb88, CC BY-SA 3.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")","5da73a28-8b20-4170-a9d1-388a9017b528",[185,192],{"id":186,"data":187,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"0dbb583a-6909-42ab-88ed-c88b8b0e1714",{"type":53,"reviewType":20,"spacingBehaviour":35,"clozeQuestion":188,"clozeWords":190},[189],"The Umayyad Caliphate had a burning desire: to spread Islam to other parts of the world.",[191],"Islam",{"id":193,"data":194,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"015cf516-cd8f-4356-b7c7-1f12011c2c2d",{"type":53,"reviewType":35,"spacingBehaviour":35,"activeRecallQuestion":195,"activeRecallAnswers":197},[196],"By 710 CE, what was the only thing separating the Umayyad empire from the shores of Christian Europe?",[198],"The Strait of Gibraltar",{"id":200,"data":201,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":204},"0e008be8-3372-4928-8ad5-bfc4cc06c381",{"type":35,"markdownContent":202,"audioMediaId":203},"At that time, the region now known as Spain was home to the Visigothic Kingdom. Just like the Franks, in the neighboring Francia, the Visigoths were one of the barbarian groups who had established a kingdom after the fall of the Roman Empire. Also like the Franks, they just so happened to be followers of Christianity.\n\nThe Umayyads wanted to claim this region, and convert them to Islam instead. And as it happened, the Umayyads had arrived on the scene at quite an opportune time.\n\nIn 710 CE, the Visigoth king had just been usurped by a local rival, and the country had fallen into a state of civil war. The Umayyads crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and caught the in-fighting Visigoths by surprise. The Umayyads surged through this Christian kingdom, claiming and converting swathes of land as they went.\n\nBy 714 CE, the Visigoths had been successfully conquered. And the Umayyads arrived at the border of Francia – the kingdom of the long-haired kings.\n\n![Graph](image://a37def60-c6c6-4185-8ba3-32814c88720a \"Umayyad territory in 714 CE. Image: Omicroñ'R, CC BY-SA 4.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")","5a3b26a1-8457-497c-8e95-6c675947dfff",[205,216],{"id":206,"data":207,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"efb40f7c-bf2d-455a-939c-2b8f4ceeeb52",{"type":53,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":208,"multiChoiceCorrect":210,"multiChoiceIncorrect":212,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[209],"After the fall of Rome, which barbarian people had established a kingdom in the region now known as Spain?",[211],"Visigoths",[213,214,215],"Ostrogoths","Franks","Anglo-Saxons",{"id":217,"data":218,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"fc00b81f-566d-4d64-af09-2cf024406da4",{"type":53,"reviewType":35,"spacingBehaviour":35,"activeRecallQuestion":219,"activeRecallAnswers":221},[220],"Why was the Visigothic Kingdom easy for the Umayyads to claim?",[222],"They were in the midst of a civil war",{"id":224,"data":225,"type":25,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":227,"introPage":235,"pages":241},"0d75959d-b2a4-4a62-ab2d-0854ae826bda",{"type":25,"title":226},"The Battle of Tours",{"id":228,"data":229,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"a6658193-a588-4871-8699-1a653f4014f7",{"type":19,"summary":230},[231,232,233,234],"After conquering the Visigothic Kingdom in Spain, the Umayyads wanted to continue north into Aquitaine","Odo the Great, leader of Aquitaine, was defeated by the Umayyads but escaped to seek help from the Franks","Charles Martel, known as 'the Hammer', led a Frankish army to face off against the Umayyads","The Battle of Tours saw the Franks defeat the Umayyads, halting their advance into Europe",{"id":236,"data":237,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"124e3646-718b-4cf7-9673-350b53a08a68",{"type":39,"intro":238},[239,240],"Who was Odo the Great, and why did he seek help from Charles Martel?","What was the unexpected strategy used by the Franks at the Battle of Tours?",[242,276,293,306],{"id":243,"data":244,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":247},"b64a0f70-00ff-4344-b91b-0bd1a1d948b5",{"type":35,"markdownContent":245,"audioMediaId":246},"When the Umayyads conquered the Visigothic Kingdom, in modern day Spain, it was the very first time that the Muslim faith had penetrated western Europe. It was a major moment in world history – but an even bigger moment was still to come.\n\nFrom their foothold in Europe, the Umayyads now wanted to seize the kingdom of Francia.\n\nBut first, in 732 CE, they launched an attack on Aquitaine – an independent region just to the south of Francia. The leader of Aquitaine was Odo the Great, who some historians believe was ethnically Roman, a remnant of the former empire. At the time of the Umayyad invasion, Odo was close to 80 years old, but he was still a fierce military leader.\n\n![Graph](image://a0daf1cb-1484-4d04-aa9a-398bc4b38f9d \"Odo the Great. 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But it wasn’t enough, and the battle ended with a resounding Muslim victory. The Chronicle of 754, an anonymous source written decades later, declared that 'God only knows the number of those who died or fled.'\n\nOdo the Great was one of the few who did manage to escape. He reorganized the scattered remains of his forces, then hurried north to search for help.\n\nHe entered the kingdom of Francia, and arrived on the doorstep of a Frankish noble named Charles Martel. Charles wasn't one of the long-haired kings, but he was a powerful figure who effectively acted as a Merovingian commander in chief. Martel translates as ‘hammer’, a nickname based upon his devastating military prowess.\n\n![Graph](image://52acfcf7-32e4-4545-ac27-55e522ea4545 \"Charles Martel (seated). Image: Public domain\")","af672531-8489-4b5b-9685-bfd2c470ebfb",[282],{"id":283,"data":284,"type":53,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"d0d26030-6d13-4681-8f2b-ca1eab04f6de",{"type":53,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":285,"multiChoiceCorrect":287,"multiChoiceIncorrect":289,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[286],"When Odo the Great came to the Franks for help, who did he meet with?",[288],"Charles Martel (a Frankish noble)",[290,291,292],"Charles Martel (a Frankish king)","Charlemagne (a Frankish noble)","Charlemagne (a Frankish king)",{"id":294,"data":295,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":298},"0506de55-4799-4130-be11-eafbdba5ba6a",{"type":35,"markdownContent":296,"audioMediaId":297},"When Odo told Charles Martel what had happened, this powerful noble didn’t hesitate. He sent his army south to defend against the next wave of Umayyad attacks.\n\nIt seems as though the Umayyads weren't aware of Charles' strength. After their successful seizure of the Visigothic Kingdom, and the defeat of Odo at the Battle of Bordeaux, they probably underestimated the Franks – and the arrival of a powerful, well-trained army caught them by surprise.\n\nThe two armies met outside the city of Tours, just south of the border between Francia and Aquitaine. This battle wasn't just between the Franks and the Umayyads – it was also a clash between Chrisitanity and Islam.\n\n![Graph](image://9cc421d8-4fef-48f3-83d4-83d12028091c \"A depiction of the armies at Tours (Umayyads left, Franks right). 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Then all of a sudden, the Franks exploded out from their formation, and 'annihilated the Arabs with the sword.'\n\n![Graph](image://1df8839d-59aa-4643-872d-0ef86793407c \"Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours. Image: Public domain\")\n\nThe Chronicle of 754 was written 22 years after the actual battle, and there's nothing to indicate that the anonymous writer was present at the actual event. But whatever the exact events of the battle, there's one thing we know for certain. 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There's every chance they would have continued north, uniting Europe under the flag of Islam, instead of a Holy Roman Empire.\n\nArabic might have become the continent’s dominant language. Towns and villages could have been dotted with mosques instead of churches. And centuries later, important events like Christopher Columbus’ voyage to America might never have taken place. His journey was funded by Catholic monarchs, and there's no way to know whether a Muslim ruler would have shown the same support.\n\nThis doesn't mean that Europe would have been worse off. Not so long after the Battle of Tours, the Islamic world enjoyed a brilliant golden age, which actually outshone a lot of the changes that Charlemagne oversaw in Europe. If the Umayyads had won at the Battle of Tours, this Islamic golden age might have blossomed in Europe too.\n\n![Graph](image://bdaa0d10-576e-41e5-aa83-82064a368382 \"Islamic golden age. 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After their successful seizure of the Visigothic Kingdom, and the defeat of Odo at the Battle of Bordeaux, they probably underestimated the Franks – and the arrival of a powerful, well-trained army caught them by surprise.",{"type":485,"tag":486,"props":772,"children":773},{},[774],{"type":490,"value":775},"The two armies met outside the city of Tours, just south of the border between Francia and Aquitaine. This battle wasn't just between the Franks and the Umayyads – it was also a clash between Chrisitanity and Islam.",{"type":485,"tag":486,"props":777,"children":778},{},[779],{"type":485,"tag":527,"props":780,"children":783},{"alt":529,"src":781,"title":782},"image://9cc421d8-4fef-48f3-83d4-83d12028091c","A depiction of the armies at Tours (Umayyads left, Franks right). 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