>>5906253You can believe Ms.Tia Ghose and Mr.Razib Khan if you want, I will rather go with dna tests and contemporary sources of that age, than with sources that tell me that by the year 711, 7000 arab soldiers came at Tarifa under the command of Tariq, soon afterwards came 18.000 under the command of Musa, born at Mecca. And that those 25000 men conquered and islamized a territory of 584.192 square km, with several millions of persons organized in visigothic monarchies and belonging, many of them to a greco-latin culture.
That would mean that in a period of 3 years, every single of those 25.000 foreigners should have taken the effort of conquering 23 square km, and if that wasn't enough conquering part of france and converting all that vast territory into islam, all by themselves.
I would recommend the book "Historia general de Al Andalus" written both by spaniards and north african, written by actual researchers that are able to find and read contemporary resources.
