HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Beginning of British dominance in Northern Europe
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End of the crusades in the Middle East
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Signified the stop of Muslim Westward Expansion
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Beginning of Turkish rule in the Balkans
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Tours was historically significant because it stopped the advance of the Muslim empire, which had successfully conquered much of Europe; many historians believe that had Charles failed, no power in Europe would have been able to halt Islamic expansion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Battle of Tours, also called Battle of Poitiers, (October 732), victory won by Charles Martel, the de facto ruler of the Frankish kingdoms, over Muslim invaders from Spain. The battlefield cannot be exactly located, but it was fought somewhere between Tours and Poitiers, in what is now west-central France.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Martel’s victory turned back a big raid rather than an invasion and attempt at conquest. If the Muslims had won, there would have been more raids of similar size into France for some years afterwards, but they ultimately would have been beaten back.