How did battles go from tens of thousands of people fighting

>>2709881
Yes.

>>2709881
People dying and you hear them crying, can you practice what you preach and will you turn the other cheek
But seriously it's because you went from the Roman Empire to statelets, where everyone was involved in agriculture, where before you could sustain a population of tens of millions of urbanites

>>2709881
Because it takes tremendous amounts of organization to get tens of thousands of people together, and then keep them fed; you can get away with smaller armies just by plundering the local landscape, but if you have more people moving through, let alone staying there, than the local agriculture can support, you need to bring that food in from elsewhere, and that takes quite a bit of work.

After the collapse of civilized society in the region and the rise of Germanic dinduism, that level of organization wouldn't be found again for a long time.

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>>2709881
>life-in-the-dark-ages.jpg
>dark ages
whew lad

>>2710016
Stock image from google.

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>>2709941
Makes sense, what about the far east and arabic countries which were never a part of the Roman empire?

Empires like the Umayyad could have been a huge threat to a weakened Europe yet they never went past Spain.

>>2710618
They never went past Spain because of people like Charles Martel.

The Antonine Plague, the JUSTinian Plague really really fucked up the Mediterranean world.

>>2710694
>Be stuck at Aquataine for years, get your ass kicked at battles like Toulouse
>Charles Martel attacks Duke Odo because he's an asswipe.
>Now that Aquataine is crippled, the Umayyads are able to move north again, raiding into places like Tours
>Lose
Toursfags are cancer. I struggle to understand the wilful blindness that makes someone think that this is some sort of turning point between Christianity and Islam. Do you guys like take classes on being hit in the head?

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>>2709881
because if every peasant was conscripted every kingdom would economically collapse

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Plague and decentralization as well as the collapse of the Roman road system. North Africa being conquered by islam meant that there was less grain being shipped across the medi too.

>>2710752
It was a long time ago it's time to let it go, Muhammad.

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>>2710777
You want to talk about things that stopped Islam? Go look up the sieges of Constantinople. If you want to look up battles in that part of the world, go check out Toulouse or Narbonne. But my God, Tours was nothing, except insofar as to how it affected the Carolingian dynasty, and how that fat fuck Creasy decided it was important, along with his other meme-tier battles like Waterloo and Marathon.

Someone thinking Tours was important is one of the clearest signs of being a history pleb who constantly repeats the same stupid fucking shit he heard from other stupid fuckers, and every last one of you worthless sacks of human shit should be purged from the world, or at least muzzled so I don't have to hear your continuing, bleating fucking idiocy.