Paul Collin's book looks at how radical islam gave birth to a United Europe

Andy Cruz

   Paul Colin's wrote a book pretty much looking at all the major events in the tenth century in Western Europe as modern Europe pretty much was created in tis span. Collins says these dark ages actually were not dark and lead to the formation of Europe's preeminence in the worlds stage as civilization emerged from the dark era after the fall of Toman authority. Order had been restored and barbarian threats to Urope in the forms of the Vikings,Muslims, Magyars, and others were ended and this had come about through extraordinary German-Saxon rulers were able to turn things around and utilizing  a better way to govern society which Europe wold spread to the rest of the world which was still barbarous and living in the dark themselves.

 Historians in their rush to level the supremacy of European cultures l sought to put other civilizations higher than Europe's but obviously had they been their civilizations would not have crumbled as quickly to forces of outsiders. Feudal Europe lead to the transition of Europe as unity around church help reemergence of central authority in Europe and this book mostly deals in the rise and reign of Otto and his marriage to a Byzantine empress that merged two empires ensuring Christian dominance in the continent which was not always so assured. The Franks and Germanic peoples of Central Europe though would eventually bring stability taking many of these raiders into the fold and turning them into fine civilized Christian Scandinavians and Hungarians while the wicked Mohammedans would be kicked out of Europe and pushed back into the Magreb deserts where they belonged.  This is a studious history book only the oat acute lovers of history would appreciate covering in intensity the Viking wars in England and the Spanish religious wars along with the rise of the house of Otto.The German empire at the turnof the millennium was a major historical fact as the new Roman empire and the rebound of Europe to its former glory and center of the stage in the mid evil world. A great look at times and the world a thousand years ago at major events that would shape the world to come.