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How would Spain be if the Arab invasion had never happened?

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So what would have happened if there'd still been an Ummayid emirate in Spain? As a Muslim country, I suspect they wouldn't have had as precarious relations with the east as Christian nations did, so there wouldn't be quite as much pressure for the people best situated to take advantage of their proximity to new lands. read more

In 711 Muslim forces invaded and in seven years conquered the Iberian peninsula. It became one of the great Muslim civilisations; reaching its summit with the Umayyad caliphate of Cordovain the tenth century. Muslim rule declined after that and ended in 1492 when Granada was conquered. The heartland of Muslim rule was Southern Spain or Andulusia. read more

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