Re: CHAT: Punic sources

Andrew Strader wrote:

> >Would that have happened?  Weren't the crusades (at least
nominally)
> >supposed to free the _holylands_ from the barbarian Arabs?
> >No Rome = no Vatican = no particular religious significance for the
area.
>
> The Germanic tribes would probably have remained polytheistic for a
longer
> time. Christianity would have reached them eventually, tho.
Or Islam... (well, if there were some Islam... would Arabia get
Christianized... or would have Carthago got Christianized?)

> --Andrew Strader     http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~strader