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What Happened to Rome?

Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World

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The Dynasties of the Middle East

Charles Martel has had a new life in the last 10 or 15 years because of the very politicized notion that some have that Islam is trying to capture or take over Western civilization. And so the Muslims fall back from that area in Gaul. They go back over the Pyrenees and then the story of 732 to 1492 from the Christian perspective. It's called the Re Conquista or the Reconquest where Christianity is pushing down on the Muslims. I want to spend a moment talking about dynasties.

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