 Complete the following phrase:  The Franks embraced the Christian Gallo-Roman culture and ancient Gaul was eventually renamed Francia Land of the Franks. The Germanic Franks adopted Romanic languages, except in northern Gaul where Roman settlements were less dense and where Germanic languages emerged. Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian dynasty, but his kingdom would not survive his death. The Franks treated land purely as a private possession and divided it among their heirs, so four kingdoms emerged from Cloviss: Paris, Orléans, Soissons, and Rheims. The last Merovingian kings lost power to their mayors of the palace head of household. One mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated an Islamic invasion of Gaul at the 