medieval period

I think it's fair to say the Islamic conquest of Egypt was relatively important for world history- it enabled the caliphates to become the biggest world powers for centuries, isolated Ethiopia from other christians, and created the North Africa we know today (and Spain & Portugal but in a very...

Few kings have had as successsful a rule as Karl The Great of Francia. Conquering from Catalonia to Bavaria, inspiring a burst of literacy and trade. Father of France and Germany and the first of many Holy Roman Emperors. But there remained two parts of western europe that Karl didn't subsume...