Charles Martel won the battle of Tours for the following reasons:
A: Leadership advantage (he may even have had the help of Odo/Eudes) Indeed, he did have the help of Odo according to Wikipedia.
B: Defensive advantage
C: He was barely even fighting Arabs or Bedouins (rather, he was fighting Moorish raiders). Perhaps one could even go as far to state the Moors were not Arabs (or at least, not the Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate).
D: Strategically, from 720-760 the Arabs were in a "limbo" (a limbo caused by being overextended, as by 720 the Arabs were the world's largest empire the world had seen at the time. The "limbo" was also caused by the passing of the Moorish general Tariq-Al-din in 720. )
The limbo was also caused by berber revolts, civil wars, devolution (the Cordoba Caliphate devoluted in 756-759 and was no longer part of the Arab empire.) and a change of dynasties (from the Ummayads to the Abbasids).
Thus, Charles Martel won the battle of Tours in October 10 732.
A: Leadership advantage (he may even have had the help of Odo/Eudes) Indeed, he did have the help of Odo according to Wikipedia.
B: Defensive advantage
C: He was barely even fighting Arabs or Bedouins (rather, he was fighting Moorish raiders). Perhaps one could even go as far to state the Moors were not Arabs (or at least, not the Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate).
D: Strategically, from 720-760 the Arabs were in a "limbo" (a limbo caused by being overextended, as by 720 the Arabs were the world's largest empire the world had seen at the time. The "limbo" was also caused by the passing of the Moorish general Tariq-Al-din in 720. )
The limbo was also caused by berber revolts, civil wars, devolution (the Cordoba Caliphate devoluted in 756-759 and was no longer part of the Arab empire.) and a change of dynasties (from the Ummayads to the Abbasids).
Thus, Charles Martel won the battle of Tours in October 10 732.
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