God Tier borders. I'll start. Glorious Lotharingia.

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>>870548
>Lotharingia
>good borders

I get the need to have Italy and Aachen in the eldest son's kingdom, but you really could not have chosen a worse way to do this.

>>870567
>dividing your empire amongst your sons

Why not just burn it?

>>870548
lel I am currently using this textbook

>>870575
because they cared more about family than nationalism

>>870587
how's highschool?

>>870587
What's the book? It looks HS level.

>>870575
Franks were borderline retarded. Smart enough to build an empire but not smart enough to maintain it.

Oh my god this book looks like cancer, "Spain" and "England" in 768?

>>870575
>Gavelkind succession
>not even once

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>>870632
>Franks were borderline retarded

Look at how they massacred my boy ...

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>>870711
Could you imagine how much stronger so many countries would have been early on with that nonsense? I mean I like a series of countries, competition is good, but Jesus Christ

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>>870732
Wrong image ... though France got fucked too.

>>870737
What the hell am I looking at here?

>>870575
Modern scholarship tends to identify the various princelings from the era as mere figureheads in front of powerful interest groups.