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732
Battle of Tours
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. -
800
Charlemange is Crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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. -
1055
The Battle of Hastings
The Norman and French army of Duke William of Normandy against the Saxon army of King Harold of England. -
1096
The First Crusade
In 1099 Jeruselum fell to the crusaders , who then began their conquest into christian states. -
1202
The Last Crusade
The fourth crusade went badly astray when the crusaders conquered Constantinople and installed a Roman Catholic regimine.