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| A group of six or more cultivators got together and each contributed an ox to the plow system. Each partner had to wait to get their piece of land turned until everyone else had their land turned. |
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| Pepin's son who by succession ruled as Mayor of the Palace from 732 until his death. Met and defeated a Moslem raiding party near Tours. |
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Byzantine Emperor who was able to push back the Moslems to the Taurus Mountains in Eastern Asia, thus regaining important territories for his empire.
(reigned from 717-741) |
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| Emperor Leo the Isaurian tried to change the religious habits of his subjects by deliberately destroying religious icons and other symbols or statues |
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