Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Capitulation of Granada, by F. Pradilla: Muhammad XII”: Boabdil surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. (Photo: ...

No contemporary historian who wished to remain in the good graces of his colleagues would marvel about the way in which Spanish conquistadors lifted the Aztecs and Incas from their dark ages of ...

Prelude: The beginning of Islam and the end of antiquity -- Part I: Conquest, 700-820 -- An opening -- Trouble in paradise -- The falcon of the Quraysh -- A new emirate -- Part II: Transformation, 820 ...