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Religion by the sword: in the century following the death of Muhammad, the religion of Islam formed the basis for the rapid conquest of the Christian lands of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
The fate of Christendom hung by a thread. It was October 732 A.D. Arrayed on a hill, partially obscured by forest, the flower of Frankish chivalry stood waiting for the bloody onset of battle. Their leader, a fearsome Germanic warrior named Karl, the illegitimate son of the former commanding warlord of the Franks, watched with trepidation as the numberless enemy, the same Saracens who had conquered Visigothic Spain, gathered far below the slope of the hill. As days passed, more and more arrived, until the invading host outnumbered the Frankish infantry by as many as two to one.
Yet Karl had been shrewd, to the same degree that the enemy commander of the Saracen ...
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