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| - The Frankish minority in Aquitania was growing throughout the province and began to become upwardly mobile as they moved into the Province. The Authorities in Aquitania, after the potential invasion from Britannia and the conquest of the Scandinavian and other Provinces on the Mare Suebicum, began to relax their racial policies against the Franks. The Franks began to create printing factories as well as making the factories that make the printing presses. The illustrations in the margins of books became a notable feature of Frankish printing and the particularly vibrant colors from specific chemicals found in northern Aquitania. The first assembly line was invented by the Franks but the few people that could be found in the Provinces were not enough to effectively use this technology. The Franks had a long history of stronger women and greater respect in the public and business world the women in most other provinces had, such as Italia, Greccia, the Parthian Provinces, and Aegyptus certainly. They were allowed to make patents and inventions and keep them for themselves. One of these was the knitting machine which made the price of clothes decrease and the quality greatly expand as well as the varieties of colors from the dye brought from the Northern Part of the Provinces and brought from the Indian Expeditions. The colors available to the regular people were expanded in the Senatorial provinces to include all colors except purple and dark blue which were reserved for the nobility and especially the Emperor. Despite the ability of the Franks to own businesses they were still refuse the right to enter into elections or vote in them, even though they had been in the province for generations. Some who saw that their children were discriminated against in the schools and many were refused to enter the military except as infantry, to be simply thrown or enslaved by the other military leaders. Some Franks decided to have their names changed to more Roman sounding ones, these were very few as they remember stories of the origin of their name from back when their people lived outside of the Roman Empire, even though this played a small role in their lives it was important and emotional when it came up. These people who changed their named were scorned as integrationists and traitors to their heritage. The Franks, with their lighter hair and bluer eyes, established clubs and organizations for their own freedom and advancement, exactly as the original policies of separation were meant to stop. The focus returned to the power monopoly of Roman and other Southern European colonists in the more Northern Provinces. The elections that occurred were only open to people who inherited that right from their ancestors. The damage however had been done, in the time between the relaxing and the reinstating of the policy, also fueled by the intensification of rhetoric and Roman pride by the new Emperor Jacobus, inflamed the passions of all people who saw themselves as Romans. The Franks demanded rights, but they did not, however, oppose being part of the Empire they simply felt that they were not, in fact, part of it but simply inside of it. The Franks, actually, would not have been part of the Province of Aquitania if they had not incorporated their neighboring Provinces into their own. Lugdunensis, Narbonensis, and Beligca had become parts of Aquitania and the Aquitanian majority kept power for themselves and refused self governance to the provinces they had made suzerain states. The subjected people were for the most part ignored so long as they paid their taxes but the Franks were different, they had a different culture and that allowed them to make new contributions to the markets of the Empire and to become a more connected group than the other formerly barbarian troops who came into the Empire slowly, in small numbers, and separately.
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