Re: Interesting timeline. Though if you assembled a similar timeline for general European history it would look pretty darn violent too.
Well yes, I guess that’s true, particularly taking into account WWI, WWII, Russian Revolution, Stalinist Russia.
However I think America has gotten Germany & Italy and the rest of western Europe pretty well domesticated for the past 70 years. Not so much for the world’s Islamists, huh?
Quite right. However, I think it’s entirely reasonable to note that Islam posed little threat to the rest of the world for about 200 years prior to 1979 and the Iranian Revolution, which revitalized Islam as a political movement.
However, I was speaking specifically about Europe during the period in question. The Magyars were raiding from the East and the Norse from the North. In fact, I believe some parts of France were raided by Muslims, Vikings and Magyars, though probably not at the same time. :)
Not to mention the quite literally continuous intramural fighting among “Christian” Europeans of the time.