The Frankish kingdom continued to expand after this battle, and during the reign of Charlemagne, its territory covered present-day France, Benelux, Germany, northern Italy and other regions, which was about the decades after the Tang Dynasty's Anshi Rebellion, and coincided with the heyday of the Tang Empire.
In the southeast of the Franks across the Balkan Peninsula occupied by the Avars, is the Byzantine Empire, which is omitted from the present, and the southeast of the Byzantine Empire is the Arab Empire that was in the sky at that time, but it should be noted that the expansion of the Arab Empire has sown the seeds for its future decline and overthrow, first of all, the Arabs as rulers and the main providers of elite force, with the expansion, the proportion of the entire empire population continues to decline, such as the Arab conquest of Persia, However, in the subsequent arab empire, the Persians with higher cultural and educational levels occupied more and more important military and political positions, which was a big problem. Secondly, similar to the Eight Banners army gradually decaying in the gentle countryside after entering the pass, the Arabs continued to spread to various places as rulers, and the hard-working soldiers that could be provided for the expansion of the empire became increasingly scarce, and it was inevitable that they would have to rely on Turkic mercenaries later. In the final analysis, this is also the fate of this type of empire, and no one has a very good solution.
The pace of expansion of the Arab Empire to the east coincided with the nomadic powers such as the Tang Empire, the Tubo Empire and the Turks, which were in their heyday, and the Tang Empire, needless to say, first opened the rule of Zhenguan in the era of Li Shimin, and its foreign military achievements were even more brilliant. The main point to be mentioned here is the Tubo Empire, the empire that suddenly sprang up on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, on the one hand, seriously constrained the national strength of the Tang Empire, forcing the Tang Empire, which had just won the war against Goryeo, to spit out strategic gains, and turned to the west to concentrate on defending Tubo, thus giving Silla a bargain, and at the same time, its competition in the western region also made the Tang Empire unable to respond effectively to the expansion of the Arab Empire in Central Asia, and could only concentrate its military forces on Hexi and Longyou. However, when the Tang Empire was caught in a passive situation caused by the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo Empire, which was in its heyday, also posed a resistance to the Arab Empire that was expanding eastward.
Generally speaking, these few in the world at that time were basically the main military forces at that time. If you want to say the characteristics, it is that the number of military empires formed in Eurasia during this period is limited and the quality is superior, and the Franks, Byzantium, Arabia, Tang, Tubo and Turks are all in the ascendant period. So they were all expanding, and among these powers, Byzantium at this time was somewhat weak, and was in a desperate attempt to save the country.
However, it should be noted that just as the Tang Empire ruled the vast territory of the northern desert for a short time, the situation of Charlemagne's empire unifying France and Germany and Italy soon ended with the separation of three descendants, and the existence of the arab empire's limit territory was also very short-lived, and the familiar map of the arab empire existed until 756 AD at most. At this point in time, we Chinese military fans will feel more like this, because in 751 there was a battle that made Chinese angry: the Battle of Qiluo, in which Gao Xianzhi, known as the god of mountain warfare, led the Tang army of Anxi Jiedu over the Pamir Plateau in an attempt to repel the invading Arabs, but failed due to the defection of the ally Grolu. There was a TV program in the past that referred to the defeat of this battle as the reason for the withdrawal of the Chinese from Central Asia, and this view has been recognized by many people as wrong, because after this battle, the Tang Dynasty's rule in the Pamir region of Central Asia did not waver, and in 753, feng Changqing was the envoy of the Anxi Festival, and also launched an expedition to the Dabul region and won the victory, which shows that from strength to prestige, the damage suffered by the Tang Dynasty should not be exaggerated, and what really made the Tang Dynasty lose Central Asia was the internal attrition caused by the Anshi Rebellion and the pattern of the feudal towns.
9th century Wan Ma Qi Chi
However, just as the so-called family has a difficult scripture, the Tang Dynasty was certainly put together by internal strife, and the Arab Empire was not. Just around the time of the Battle of Qiros, the Arab Empire that had expanded its territory to the limits had been internally replaced, and the history of the previous Arab Empire was dominated by the Arabs from the peninsula during the Four Caliphas and the Umayyad period, but this model of dominating large-scale states by local groups was prone to problems, and it was also the case that some Of the Shiite Arabs within it united with forces such as the Persians and eventually launched an armed rebellion. He also subverted the Umayyad dynasty of the Arabs (white food) and established the Abbasid dynasty (black food). The last bloodline of the Umayyad dynasty fled and occupied Spain against it. That is to say, 5 years after the expeditionary force sent by the Abbasid governor of Central Asia won the Battle of Tyros, the Arab Empire had begun to split in the western region, and although the Abbasids had seized power in Iran and Iraq, their prestige and control over the entire empire were not strong, so in 788 their Algeria and Morocco regions in North Africa had become independent, Tunisia and Libya in 800, and in 820 it was turned to the current Afghan region. This was followed by the separation of Pakistan in 867 and Syria and Egypt in 868. 100 years after the Arab Empire won the Battle of The Rus' Wars, the mighty Arab Empire ceased to exist, it did not exist for long, it reached its peak in the decades around 800 AD, the so-called Centennial Translation Movement and the Arab Golden Age refer to this period, but soon it collapsed like a wall peeling, and the Abbasid Caliphate of the Arab Empire at this time was only western Iran, Iraq and parts of Central Asia. It is no longer a large empire spanning asia and Africa, but more like a regional power. The Tang Empire, which fought against it in Central Asia at that time, was the era of Tang Dynasty, after experiencing the continuous counterattack of Yuan and Zhongxing and Huichang Zhongxing against the surrounding threats, and with the help of Zhang Yichao's uprising, it had recovered most of the territory east of Guasha, if it were not for the sudden outbreak of the Huangchao Uprising, it is unknown whether the Tang Dynasty would continue to revitalize, and its decline rate was actually much slower than that of the Arab Empire.
And it is interesting to note that almost all the great empires that were once incomparably beautiful in the 7th century were decayed and divided at this time, and we still look at the western end of Eurasia, and in the late 9th century, the Frankish kingdom was divided into three pieces by descendants after Charlemagne's death, namely West Francia, Middle Francia and East Francia, which in any case was also a serious weakening of power.
To the east of the Byzantine Empire, there was a fragmented Arab Empire, and from west to east were mountains such as the Idris dynasty, the Aghraib dynasty, the Tulum dynasty, the Abbasid dynasty, the Tahir dynasty, the Safar dynasty, and so on. By the way, since this time, the Arabs have never formed a strong unified empire, until modern times have been in a state of fragmentation, such as Nasser and others to combine Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic is an effort after the 20th century, but it is clear that all these efforts have failed.