Posting Quick Reply - Please Wait. What if the Muslims had successfully conquered all of Europe during the Islamic Conquest? Rome, general. User Name. Remember Me. View detailed profile Advanced or search site with. Search Forums Advanced.
Page 2 of 5. Simple answer there would have been no dark ages. Location: Victoria TX 42, posts, read 80,, times Reputation: Location: Colorado 3, posts, read 1,, times Reputation: Quote: Originally Posted by Deezus It really depends what year and period of history you imgaining this happening in to answer that question seriously.
Location: Elsewhere 71, posts, read 67,, times Reputation: Quote: Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly What if the Muslim Conquest were successful at conquering the entire continent of Europe?
Quote: Originally Posted by jtur88 Nothing, really. Location: Bronx 16, posts, read 21,, times Reputation: Originally Posted by jtur88 Nothing, really. Originally Posted by Tallybalt The opposite argument is shown by what happened to Byzantine. Location: SoCal 5, posts, read 5,, times Reputation: City-Data Forum Message.
Cancel Changes. Quick Reply. It was, in any case, less cruel and bloody than the witch-hunts that swept through much of Europe. Few years, or places, have packed so many pivotal events into a single year as Spain in He began a world-transforming exchange of plant and animal species between continents, while exporting the terrors of gunpowder, sharpened steel and smallpox. His voyage also started a centuries-long shift of global power away from the sophisticated, non-Christian east to the rugged seafaring nations of the Atlantic rim which soon engaged in transatlantic slavery.
Yet, for a Christendom traumatised by the loss of Constantinople to the Turks, the key event in was the conquest of Granada. Her sons eventually turned against their father, other relatives took sides and control of the fractious kingdom passed from one group to another.
Boabdil was a magnificent sight, riding into battle on a white horse, dressed in brocade and velvet, with a dark red and gold helmet. But he was a bad general, who was twice captured by his Christian opponents. On both occasions he bought his freedom with a pledge to make war on his relatives. The final conquest of Granada had as much to do with Nasrid infighting as with the vast array of Castilian cannons which meant that castles and walled towns could no longer just lock their doors and dig in for long sieges.
Boabdil did less well; Drayson reveals the many ways in which the Nasrid monarch, who was originally given lands in the rugged Alpujarra sierras near Granada, was pushed into leaving for north Africa a few years later. Even washing could get them into trouble. A secret, banned literature — written in Spanish, but with Arabic letters — helped keep Islam alive. Many, if not most, moriscos were still secret Muslims when Philip III carried out his final act of ruthless religious cleansing.
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