WI: Charlemagne never passed the Pyrenees

As the title says, how would history have developed if the natural border of the Pyrenees was never passed by Charlemagne and to a greater extent the franks until the end of the Carolingian dynasty and the division of france into 3 parts.

With no Spanish march would a Reconquista be possible?
What would be the result if it survived to the modern day with an islamic power in western Europe?
How would things look in the new world?
 
No Spanish March will make it harder, but there were small Christian realms on the Spanish north coast.
Besides that, if Western Christianity develops the concept of Crusade ITTL, Spain is one of the nearest targets...

Division of France in three parts:confused:, do you mean the division of the kingdom of the Franks (btw each part had its own king of the Franks).
 
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No Spanish March will make it harder, but there were small Christian realms on the Spanish north coast.
Besides that, if Western Christianity develops the concept of Crusade ITTL, Spain is on of the closest targets...

Division of France in three parts:confused:, do you mean the division of the kingdom of the Franks (btw each part had its own king of the Franks).

yeah that is what i ment

West, East, and middle Francia
 
What do you think would happen if the Moors stayed in power until about 1492 when the new world was discovered? would it have been discovered at all?
 
What do you think would happen if the Moors stayed in power until about 1492 when the new world was discovered? would it have been discovered at all?

Muslim Western Europe would actually delay the discovery of the New World by possibly decades, in the same matter that surviving Byzantines would. If Western Europe has access to trade routes, they will be less eager to get to the Indies via the Atlantic. Especially because they know the size of the world, and how huge the ocean must be.

Columbus was just a lucky idiot.
 
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