With Christianity and the sophisticated Celtic culture successfully fused, Ireland entered its  Golden Age  (a.d.
Ireland's Golden Age started after the culture of the Celts fused with Christianity.
For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.