Burned—City of "The Fairest"
a Ruin—Asturias—Leon and Castile United—Alfonso
VI.—The Cid—Triumph of Christians—Moors
Ask Aid of the Almoravides—Christians
Driven Back—Death of the Cid—A Dynasty of
the Almoravides—The Alhomades—The Great
Mahdi—Moorish People Become Subject to
Emperor of Morocco—His Designs upon
Europe—The Pope Proclaims a Crusade—Alhomades
Driven Out of Spain by Christians—Moorish