The Battle of Tours, 732 AD

There is no question that the many victories of the Islamic empire in the 7th and 8th centuries terrorized the lands in their path. In a short period of time Tierney says that, “The followers of a new prophet, Mohammed, snatched away from the Byzantine Empire all the ancient Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa” (81). After these triumphs, the Mohammedans accompanied by the Berbers from North Africa invaded and conquered Spain in 711. What lay before them was the whole...