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Frankish state simply dissolved due to strict inheritance laws

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Building a massive empire through decades of brutal conquest is utterly pointless if your own legal code mandates splitting it completely equally among your heavily armed, incredibly jealous sons. The moment the ruler died, the entire empire instantly fractured into heavily competing kingdoms that immediately started violently invading each other.

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