. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . Mo-hammedan attacks. For eight hundred years, until Colum-bus time, the Moslemmaintained themselves asthe rulers of Spain, andmade its life for severalcenturies the most brilliantand intellectual of the conquest ofSpain had been secured,tfce Moslem crossed thePyrenees into Gaul, de-feating the armies of theFrankish rulers in several battles. It seemed that theChristian and Teutonic kingdom arising in western Europewould, like the Visigothic kingdom of Spain, fall before theseimitars of the followers of Mohammed. F
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . Mo-hammedan attacks. For eight hundred years, until Colum-bus time, the Moslemmaintained themselves asthe rulers of Spain, andmade its life for severalcenturies the most brilliantand intellectual of the conquest ofSpain had been secured,tfce Moslem crossed thePyrenees into Gaul, de-feating the armies of theFrankish rulers in several battles. It seemed that theChristian and Teutonic kingdom arising in western Europewould, like the Visigothic kingdom of Spain, fall before theseimitars of the followers of Mohammed. For good or illthis would have changed the history of Europe; but theirgreat array was met in 732 a. d., just one hundred yearsafter Mohammeds death, by all the forces which the Frankscould levy. In the battle of Tours, Charles Martel wonthe name of Martel, The Hammer/ and defeated the Mo-hammedans so badly that they were forced to withdraw intoSpain. A Christian chronicler had thus described the battle:At last they set themselves in battle array; and the nations. Mohammedan Gold Coin from Spain. It reads: Mohammed is the One Sent ofAllah, and on the margin: This Coin isStruck in El-Andalua in the Year 98 (afterthe Hegira). THE CAROLINGIANS AND THE PAPACY 495 of the North, standing firm as a wall and as impenetrable as azone of ice, slew the Arabs with their swords. The battleof Tours may justly be called one of the decisive engage-ments of history. 633. The Carolingian Alliance with the Papacy.—In thisbattle, Charles Martel appeared as a great leader in thedefense of Christian culture in the West. Events whichfollowed made this position of the Carolingian rulers moreprominent, and led to a relation between the Frankishkingdom and the Papacy at Rome which was almost analliance. While the Carolingians had been working towardthe actual rule of the Franks through their position asmayors of the palace, the popes were being hard pressedby the Lombards of northern Italy. Pope Gregor
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