The fall of Constantinople was only a question of time.

After its fall, Rome alone remained.
In the development of Christianity, Carthage had played no insignificant part.

It had given to Europe its Latin form of faith, and some of its greatest theologians.

It was the home of St.Augustine.
Never in the history of the world had there been so rapid and extensive a propagation of any religion as Mohammedanism.

It was now dominating from the Altai Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, from the centre of Asia to the western verge of Africa.
CONQUEST OF SPAIN.