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    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    The Franks had a good deal of strategic depth too, they had Neustria (northern France) in the Paris area and west of the Rhine but they had Austrasia (Germany), especially their Franconian heartland still east of the Rhine, and they probably already controlled Alemannia, so the more mountainous...
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    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    Not just plausible. The undisputed reality for a few centuries.
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    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    This is true to a great extent, Europe nearly always had this backstabbing between multiple states, while the Muslims had longer periods (certainly not without long interruptions) of hegemonic, outwardly directed empires. Plus for long stretches the Muslims had a better tax base and military...
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    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    Yeah, well, what Italy has going for it is basically two shots at it (the Arab or Ottoman era) and and greater proximity to multiple avenues of Muslim reinforcement and possible greater defensibility once conquered. For lasting expansion into France, the advantage is the broad and direct land...
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    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult? a) A further Muslim conquest and expansion into France, leading to the Caliphate having a frontier at about the Loire or the Seine river for several centuries (at least 300) and Orleans or Paris being a frontier rather than central...
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