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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the PyreneesMountains, and remained here, holding their country sofirmly by its borderland that they never were driven out.The Moors passed on into France, where they were beatenby the Franks and their advance was checked. Moorish Cities. — In Spain the Moors began a brilliantcareer. Large numbers came from Africa to settle here.The Emirs, as the Moorish rulers were called, showed them-selves far above the Christian princes of Europe in cultureand civilization. Cordova became their capital. It soonboasted of two hundred thousand houses and more than amilHon people. The streets were made straight; and itwas said, a man might walk through the city after dark for 194 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE ten miles in one direction by the light of public lamps. Evenseven hundred years later, there was not one public streetlight in London. Cordova streets were paved and clean,while for centuries still to come whoever stepped into thestreets of Paris on a rainy day sank to his ankles in mud.
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The Court of Lions, Alhambra. There were other large cities of the Moors as splendid asCordova — Granada, Seville, and Toledo. The Califs Palace. — The Mohammedans had broughtwith them the civilization and luxuries of Asia. The CaKfspalace at Cordova was of poUshed marble. The ceilings MOHAMMED AND THE MOORS 195 were of stained glass speckled with gold. The floors were ofbeautiful mosaics, and the walls were covered with splendidpaintings representing views of Paradise. From the ceiKngshung great chandeliers, one of which held nearly two thou-sand lamps. There were marble columns, fountains, andflower gardens. The courts for children to play in were ofmarble. In winter the rooms of the palace were hung withrich tapestry and the floors were covered with Persian car-pets. The buildings were suppHed by metal pipes with hotand cold water for the marble baths. The CaHfs librarywas very great and grand. The catalogue alone filled fortyvolumes. There were rooms for copying, because print

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