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^At the dawn of the eighth century, western Christendom stood
 face-to-face with the Sword of Islam. Following the prophet
 Mohammed's death in 632, Arabian converts spread the word of Allah
 across the Middle East. In their path lay the powerful Byzantine
 empire, a bulwark of western civilization and Christianity.
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^Beyond were the Franks, Visigoths, and Lombards. Slavs and Bulgars,
 loosely controlled by Byzantium, are migrating into the Balkans.
 By 700 AD, Arab armies had conquered Antioch, Egypt, and Carthage
 and were sweeping toward Morocco and Spain.
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