Quote:These facts all agreed. Yet what if you were a farmer in Iberia when the Muslims blew in? Your farm might have been destroyed if it lay in the path of an army. If pagan, you might have been forced to convert to Islam at swordpoint. Between then and the Reconquista you merely paid tribute to a different master. At least the Muslims didn't hold Inquisitional courts to examine your inner conscience.
I agree completely, the peasant doesn't really care which hand holds the whip. His life sucks anyway.
The point is, there was still a whip.
