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Title: A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876- jt. auth
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin Company
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to Damascus, and thecaliphate became a family possession of the Ommiad Dynasty.In 750, this dynasty was overthrown by the line of the Abba- 1 Thus Mohammed very conveniently allowed his followers four wives. TheChristian precept, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven isperfect, is not found in the Koran. 2 Under the temporal advantages offered, practically all the Persians, and alarge fraction of the Syrian and Egyptian Christians,accepted Islam; but withsuch non-Moslems as submitted cheerfully and paid tribute, the early caliphsdealt justly and even liberally. Taxes were probably lighter under their rulethan under the later Roman regime. MOHAMMEDANS AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE 33 sides, who founded the new capital of Bagdad: the Ommiadskeeping only the independent government of Spain. But someyears earlier the Arabian Empire had already reached its limitstoward Europe. Northern Africa was wrested (about 690) fromthe East Romans; in 711, a Moslem force crossed to Spain and
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_._Boundaries of East Roman and Persian Empires about 622 ( 1 Mohammedan Conquests 622-632 632-661 «■ 661-750 Longitude East from Greenwich THE MOHAMMEDAN LANDS IN THE EAST destroyed the kingdom of the Visigoths. How western Europewas saved at Tours is told in another place (see chapter v). Frankland, however, was not the only European regionwhose life was in sore peril early in the eighth century. Fifteenyears before the battle of Tours the Moslems had dashed them-selves upon the walls of Constantinople. 17. The Eastern Empire repulses the Saracens (717). ToConstantinople nearly all the remnants of the old Graeco-Roman art, learning, and culture seem to have retreated.Western Europe was at this time deep in the semi-barbarisminto which it had been cast by the Germanic invasions. Itwould require centuries before conditions would be such that 34 HISTORY OF EUROPE it could welcome again and understand the ancient civilizationwhich Constantinople could give back. Had the Moslemstaken

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