A History of Agriculture in India v2.c53.s6.1

v2.c53.s6.1

Here reference may be made to the Arab conquest of Spain. The leader of the first expedition into Spain was Tariq, a Berber, who with a force of three hundred Arabs and seven thousand Berbers defeated the West Goths in a great battle in A.D. 711. As compared with the Arab invaders, these Goths were unlettered savages. In A.D. 720, the Arabs reached the Pyrenees. It was Charles Martel who defeated the Moslems at Poitiers in A.D. 732 and saved the Christian Europe. If he had lost the battle, the whole of Europe would have been conquered by the Moslems, and the history of the world would have been different.