Province, 15

CHAPTER IV.
Sertorius--Story of the White Hind--Rome Fights
Her Own Battles on Spanish Soil--Battle of
Munda--Caesar Declared Dictator--The Ides of
March--Octavius Augustus--Spain Latinized--Four
Hundred Years of Peace, 24

CHAPTER V.
Northern Races in the History of Civilization--Roman
Empire Expiring--Ataulfus--Attila and
the Huns--Theodoric--Evaric Completes Conquest
of Spanish Peninsula--Europe Teutonized--Difference
between Anglo-Saxon and
Latin Races, 30

CHAPTER VI.
Ulfilas--Arianism--The Spanish Language--Brunhilde--Leovigild--His
Son's Apostasy--Arianism
Ceases to be the Established Religion of Spain, 39

CHAPTER VII.
Toledo--Church of Santa Maria--Wamba, 45

CHAPTER VIII.
Decline of Visigoths--Roderick--Count Julian's
Treachery--Mahommedanism--Tarif--Prophecy
Found in the Enchanted Tower--Tarik--Roderick's
Defeat and Death--Moslem Empire Established in Spain, 50

CHAPTER IX.
Musa's Dream of European Conquest--Charles Martel--Characteristics
of Mahommedan Rule--Mission of the Saracen in Europe--The Germ
of a Christian Kingdom in the North of Spain, 58

CHAPTER X.
Pelayo and the Cave of Covadonga--Alfonso I.--Berbers
and Arabs at War on African Coast--War
Extends to Spain--The Omeyyad Khalifs
Superseded by the Abbasides--Abd-er-Rahman--Omeyyad
Dynasty Established at Cordova--Ineffectual
Attempt of the Abbasides to
Overthrow Abd-er-Rahman--Character of This Conqueror, 64

CHAPTER XI.
Charlemagne--Battle of Roncesvalles, 69

CHAPTER XII.
Conditions after Death of Abd-er-Rahman--Abd-er-Rahman
II.--Arab Refinements--Eulogius
and the Christian Martyrs--Abd-er-Rahman
III.--A Khalifate at Cordova--The Great
Mosque--The City of "The Fairest"--Death
of Abd-er-Rahman III., 72

CHAPTER XIII.
Rough Cradle of a Spanish Nationality in the
Asturias--Alfonso III. and His Hidalgos and
Dons--Guerrilla Warfare with Moors--Jealousies
and Strife between Christian Kingdoms--Civil
War--Almanzor--Ruin of Christian State
Seemed Imminent--Death of Almanzor--Berber
Revolt--Anarchy in Moorish State--A Khalif
Begging a Crust of Bread--Berbers Destroy Cordova--Library
Burned--City of "The Fairest"
a Ruin--Asturias--Leon and Castile United--Alfonso
VI.--The Cid--Triumph of Christians--Moors
Ask Aid of the Almoravides--Christians