They managed to hold onto most of Spain for like 600 years though

So since tumblr today is just like "race doesnt exist", the medieval version would have been "religion is a social construct" lel

Islamic

this battle was like 1251-1253ish

Wasn't Charlemange in charge of the Christian forces?

was in the defense of europe, though really just france stoping them

oh god dam ni always get the dates wrong

732AD

nah he wasnt

some other frankish nig

i feel like this was not long after muslims even started

Islam really took off not too long after Rome fell, like maybe 200-300 years after

yeah fucking 632 was death of Mohammad

So that'd fit the timeline

Oh oop

you mean Charles Martel?

god damn they got their shit together fast

Charles Martel, the savior of Europe

/Christianity

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Islam has it's faults but the Caliphates it held were really good with fightin

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I've heard it called a religion of conquerers, since that's how the book is written, to promote that sort of thing

Not an expert though

i mean at the time

they were both violent as fuck

The religion of peas

or charlie held back them sandies

just barley

shame it wasn't the religion of mushy peas

I could get behind that

which was impressive in that the muslim forces werent pushovers either

Conquering doesn't really fit so well within the modern day

The Muslim forces were really good for their time

they stayed amazing until

Very well adapted to the desert environment

shit like mid 1600s?

Wasnt the final fuck off for the muslims the Siege of Vienna?

They stayed amazing until....I want to say until bows stopped being top dog