Why was the Battle of Tours significant?

Question

I have to answer this but I can't find out what it was!!!

Answer 1

"Oscarwei" has an extremely good answer.
So many people get this wrong.
Your teacher will want you to say it was the high point of the Muslim advance into Europe turned back by the Christian Franks. Thereafter, the Muslims generally stayed in Spain south of the Pyrenees mountains. [ My opinion from much reading is that the Muslims were content to stay in the Iberian peninsula.]
The Muslim force was no where near the hundreds of thousands described in some accounts, and the battle itself was not the huge earth shaking victory it is often said to be.
BUT - unless you are in an advanced college history course, the pat answer is that it was a turning point in the battle between Islam and Christendom and "saved" Europe in the early part 8th century when Islam was on the move.

Answer 2

October 10, 732 AD marks the conclusion of the Battle of Tours, arguably one of the most decisive battles in all of history.

A Moslem army, in a crusading search for land and the end of Christianity, after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, began to invade Western Europe under the leadership of Abd-er Rahman, governor of Spain. Abd-er Rahman led an infantry of 60,000 to 400,000 soldiers across the Western Pyrenees and toward the Loire River, but they were met just outside the city of Tours by Charles Martel, known as the Hammer, and the Frankish Army.

Answer 3

Nice answers spreedog and oscarwei, but i might offer some points of clarification. Martel's army wasn't made up of Roman empire survivors. The tens of thousands of troops quoted about by Frosty are certainly exaggerated numbers. And the Muslim army was made up of African Moors, not Arabs.

Spreedog is right on the money that anything but an upper level college class would want you to simply say the battle stopped the muslim advance and that's it. But you'll win a lot of points when you mention that a lot is made of this battle when it was in fact little more than a large skirmish. The defense of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Leo III in 717 was a much more crucial defense of Europe from Muslim invasion. In that the hundreds of thousands number rings true.

Answer 4

Yes, Charles Martel, a franksih leader led a motley crew of Roman Empire survivors against the Arab invasions over the Pyrenees. MY own view is that this was a raid rather than a seriousa invasion, a bit like Rourke's Drift. Beware of casting Charles as a Christian hero, though. He very nearly got excommunicated for taking over Church land.

Oh, and pay no atention to the figures quoted above. Medieval chroniclers could never count, while logistics was in its infancy and you could not keep an army that large in the field. We are probably talking about division strength.

Answer 5

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Why was the Battle of Tours significant?
I have to answer this but I can't find out what it was!!!

Answer 6

Charles Martel, mayor of the palace of the kings of the West Franks, defeated the Arabs who had crossed the Pyrenees from Spain into France in AD 732. The Arabs had conquered Spain by defeating Roderick, the last king of the Visigoths in 711. Charles' victory stopped the Arab advance into Europe.

Answer 7

It prevented Islam from taking over Europe

Answer 8

Describe the Mediterranean region in the early 8th century.

Answer 9

it was. it stopped the muslims.

Answer 10

it had boobs