What Did the Franks Ever Do for Us?

The franks had a big hand in the map of europe looking the way it does to day. France is, of course, also named after them. Ande even te, the city of frankfort, is named for the franks. Linguistically, they have made their way into english through french or dutch. They produce this massive amount of scholarship and philosophy. Also stimulated economic growthand anurban development. But sadly, just like the vikingsa frankish history continues to be appropriated by extremist groups on the far right who have adopted quite distorted views of this type of history.