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In less than ten years he conquered Egypt, Persia, Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine and made Damascus the capital of the first Mohammedan world empire.
在不到十年的時間里，奧瑪爾率軍相繼征服了埃及、波斯、腓尼基、敘利亞、巴勒斯坦等地，并定都大馬士革，建立起第一個伊斯蘭世界帝國。
Omar was succeeded by Ali, the husband of Mohammed's daughter, Fatima, but a quarrel broke out upon a point of Moslem doctrine and Ali was murdered. After his death, the caliphate was made hereditary and the leaders of the faithful who had begun their career as the spiritual head of a religious sect became the rulers of a vast empire. They built a new city on the shores of the Euphrates, near the ruins of Babylon and called it Bagdad, and organising the Arab horsemen into regiments of cavalry, they set forth to bring the happiness of their Moslem faith to all unbelievers. In the year 700 A.D. a Mohammedan general by the name of Tarik crossed the old gates of Hercules and reached the high rock on the European side which he called the Gibel-al-tarik, the Hill of Tarik or Gibraltar.
奧瑪爾之后，穆罕默德的女兒法蒂瑪的丈夫阿里繼任哈里發。在一場關于伊斯蘭教義的爭吵中，阿里被謀殺。自他死后，哈里發成為世襲制度，而原先的宗教領袖們搖身成為一個龐大帝國的統治者。他們在幼發拉底河岸靠近巴比倫遺址的地方修建新都，將其命名為巴格達。他們將阿拉伯牧民組織成威力無比的騎兵兵團 ，開始出發去遠征，向異教世界傳播穆罕默德的福音。公元700年，穆斯林將軍泰里克跨越赫爾克里斯門，到達歐洲海岸的陡峭巖壁。泰里克將此地命名為直布爾，也稱泰里克山或直布羅陀。
Eleven years later in the battle of Xeres de la Frontera, he defeated the king of the Visigoths and then the Moslem army moved northward and following the route of Hannibal, they crossed the passes of the Pyrenees. They defeated the Duke of Aquitania, who tried to halt them near Bordeaux, and marched upon Paris.
在11年后的澤克勒斯戰役中，泰里克擊敗了西哥特國王率領的軍隊。之后，穆斯林騎兵繼續北上，沿漢尼拔進軍羅馬的路線，穿越比利牛斯山的山隘。阿奎塔尼亞大公試圖在波爾多附近阻擊穆斯林軍隊，但功敗垂成。下一個目標就是巴黎，穆斯林騎兵繼續向北挺進。
