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Show Possibilities of Renaissance. The Arab is an Asiatic, a Semite, and Arabia Is probably his original home. Thence, migration into Babylonia Baby-lonia was easy, states a writer, owing to ihe absence of natural obstacles, such as seas or high mountain ranges. As It was a custom of Arabic historians histo-rians to begin with the creation, few of them ever reached the era In which they lived and about which they might have written with some accuracy. Largely for that reason no distinct record rec-ord has come down to us of the highly high-ly interesting conquest of northern A:rioa as far as the Straits of Hercules; Her-cules; it Is only after the Arabs effected ef-fected lodgment In Spain and pushed as far into France as Charles Martel would permit them that anything approaching ap-proaching "history'' of them Is to be bad. |