Famous and decisive battles of the world; . o be his funeral pyre should the alliessuccessfully storm the camp. But the allies did not attack. Morning revealed the plaincovered for miles with dead and dying, but the lines of Romeand Gaul had not advanced. It is said that Aetius refused tocomplete the work of the day before, because he knew that anoverwhelming rout and slaughter of the Huns would so elate hisallies, the Visigoths, that they might renounce their allegianceto Rome entirely and declare their independence of Roman rule,since they had shown how valiantly they could hold their own in
Famous and decisive battles of the world; . o be his funeral pyre should the alliessuccessfully storm the camp. But the allies did not attack. Morning revealed the plaincovered for miles with dead and dying, but the lines of Romeand Gaul had not advanced. It is said that Aetius refused tocomplete the work of the day before, because he knew that anoverwhelming rout and slaughter of the Huns would so elate hisallies, the Visigoths, that they might renounce their allegianceto Rome entirely and declare their independence of Roman rule,since they had shown how valiantly they could hold their own inbattle. Be this as it may, Aetius persuaded young King Thoris-niund, who had just succeeded Theodoric, his father, that itwould be best to leave things as they were and return to hiscapital. Molested no further, but terribly shattered and beaten,Attila was allowed to retreat from France. He died two yearsafter Chalons, and his great empire fell to pieces with his Huns were no longer the terror and scourge of WesterrEurope. 732 A. D. OR years after Chalons great changes weretaking place-in Christendom. The RomanEmpire died out in the West. The Saxonsand Angles conquered Britain. Italy andNorthern Africa were for a time added tothe Roman Empire of the East. Warswere vigorously carried on between theEmperors of Constantinople and the Kingsof Persia well into the seventh came the era of Mohammed and the Hegira, in Mohammed conquered Arabia, and during the remainderof the century the Mohammedan Arabs, gaining constantly instrength and confidence, invaded first Persia, then conqueredSyria, Egypt and Africa; and early in the eighth century, from707 to 713, they had crossed the straits of Gibraltar, and werebattling and conquering allover Spain. The Germanic conquerors of Rome had, three centuriesbefore this, fallen back across the Rhine, never to return. AFrench monarchy had been founded in Gaul by King Clovis,and for three hundred years it had
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