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Charles Martel made sure France and the rest of Western Europe did not join the Spanish multicultural paradise. Had he not won, we might never have experienced the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the flowering of education or the Industrial Revolution. We could have become part of the cultural desert that is the Islamic world today.