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Columbus sailing to India & China by going West? What blocked going East?
American Minute ^ | August 3, 2019 | Bill Federer

Posted on 08/07/2019 11:58:52 AM PDT by Perseverando

"There are but 155 years left ... at which time ... the world will come to an end," wrote Christopher Columbus in his book Libro de Las Profecias, composed in 1502 between his 3rd and 4th voyages.

Columbus continued:

"... The sign which convinces me that our Lord is hastening the end of the world is the preaching of the Gospel recently in so many lands."

Though his predictions were off, Columbus' writings revealed his motivation for setting sail on his first voyage AUGUST 3, 1492, with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria.

He sought to find a sea route to India and China as the Islamic Ottoman Turks had closed off the land routes 40 years earlier.

The background of the Islamic state occupying large areas of Europe began when Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," invaded Spain in 711 AD.

The Muslim commander was named Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad. He landed, with his 80,000-man Umayyad army, at a place where there was a large mount, for which the Arabic word is "jabal."

The place took his name "Jabal Ṭāriq," or as it was later pronounced "Gibraltar."

Moorish cavalry, wielding curved scimitar swords, "went through all places like a desolating storm."

The Mozarabic Chronicle, 754 AD, recorded that thousands of churches were burned and: "God alone knows the number of the slain."

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In 846 AD, just 46 years after Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome's old St. Peter's Basilica, 11,000 Muslims on 73 ships invaded Rome and sacked the Basilica.

They looted the historic basilica and desecrated the grave of St. Peter.

Invaders then trashed the remains of St. Paul, which were in the historic church, San Paolo fuori le Mura (St Paul's outside the Walls.)

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: billfederer; cantplaytennis; columbus; islam; jihad; moors; muslims; ottoman; pope; vatican
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


21 posted on 08/07/2019 12:57:03 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: morphing libertarian

1491 is illuminative. I have read it and reread it.


22 posted on 08/07/2019 1:00:43 PM PDT by arthurus (ghsj,,,/\)
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To: arthurus

thanx just got it


23 posted on 08/07/2019 1:02:23 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: nwrep
Not yet. I have read Charlemagne and Mohammed Revisited by Emmet Scott and recommend it to everyone I know who homeschools along with Pragers Exodus and Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson I consider Exodus and the Hazlitt to be necessary parts of any home school curriculum along with Prager's essay Judaism's Sexual Revolution.
24 posted on 08/07/2019 1:06:13 PM PDT by arthurus (ghsj,,,/A\)
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To: morphing libertarian

It sent me to reading whatever comes up about the now obvious civilization that was in Amazonia and puts the lie to the greenies yelling about Primeval Forests and the Rain Forest being untouched and “natural” since the dawn of time.


25 posted on 08/07/2019 1:09:38 PM PDT by arthurus (ghsj,,,/A\v/)
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To: Perseverando

This question is a good question. Truth is “he already knew” for sure from previous secret maps and the Greek and Arab records there was indeed another continent, but he was not sure and misfigured “how far” it was to the Americas... The “to India” stuff was all a lie that had to be followed through with to gain funding. He initially and secretly set sail for exactly what he did find... Atlantis...


26 posted on 08/07/2019 1:09:50 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: logi_cal869

Turns out that was a rumor started to make the Anglican church look inept. They knew long before it was not flat.


27 posted on 08/07/2019 1:12:29 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: arthurus
Hazlitt's Failure of the New Economics dismantles Keynes "General Theory," chapter by chapter. Total demolition, as I recall, from reading it in the early 1960s.
28 posted on 08/07/2019 1:13:19 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: arthurus

WARS SLAVERY AND DISEASE ARE AWLAYS USED TO EXCORIATE THE EUROPEANS. SO I WAS INTERESTED IN THOSE ISSUES AS RELATED TO THE INDIANS BEFORE THE EUROPEANS CAME.


29 posted on 08/07/2019 1:13:36 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: thoughtomator

Belive there was a slipway (place to drag ships across land) or ancient canal between the NIle river and the Red Sea.


30 posted on 08/07/2019 1:15:27 PM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: logi_cal869

Are those mountain ranges, or is that a map of San Francisco?


31 posted on 08/07/2019 1:16:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: arthurus

And what did you find? That Amazonia has been cultivated and civilized since the timeline of Gobekli Tepe 12k ago or more? If so you are absolutely right.


32 posted on 08/07/2019 1:19:31 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Perseverando

Hard to sail boats on land.


33 posted on 08/07/2019 1:24:50 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: Openurmind

Pretty much. The mainstream Archaeologists have stopped trashing theoe who have made these discoveries. They are so obvious now that denying them is like denying the existence of England.


34 posted on 08/07/2019 1:44:29 PM PDT by arthurus (ghsj,,,/A\v/^\4)
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To: Ohioan

I required my children to read it once in Jr hi and once in High school. They are totally immune to the utopias of the Left and to mercantilism and to government promises and we almost never talk about politics. You read and understand that book you cannot be snowed by any arguments for government pro-avtive solutions to anything or to any Keynes BS or any other “modern” economics.


35 posted on 08/07/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by arthurus (ghsj,,,/A\v/^\4,g)
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To: mason-dixon

Here is a concept not often explored or considered. I have even criticized the head of the world maritime university about this. Why a slipway? Why drag ships? The concept is completely impractical on it’s face.

Why is it that everything having to do with ships/vessels requires “portage”, or the towing of smaller vessels? Why is it that when looking at the history of sea travel, only certain ports and vessel construction sites are considered as sources of all vessels?

The Vikings could not land a vessel on one shore and then hike across land and build another vessel as needed with axes as they were constructed originally in the great lakes? Couldn’t happen because they had to find a way to drag one across land and use it again which is totally impractical and stupid? Seafarers did not have land legs or intelligence at all?

The head of the world maritime university once said in a video that the only way the Vikings could have reached the great lakes is if they also towed several smaller vessels behind their ships to do it. And that ALL vessels could have only been made in one or two shipyards. And that there was no way they could drag even those over land.

Wait? really? They were not capable of just building new vessels as needed on the other side of the “by foot” land crossing? Knowledge, skill, axes and trees equal ships no matter where you happen to be. Skills, knowledge and labor did not require to be dragged across land with special very impractical efforts.

This narrative and consensus is starting to bug me. Just because we would be stupid enough to think and require this does not mean our predecessors were actually that inept. This one huge difference of perspective completely changes the “assumed” history of sea travel. They did not have unions and “not my job” or “not certified to do that” policies.


36 posted on 08/07/2019 1:54:19 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: arthurus

Yep, we are still using rumor and false media headlines to narrate history...


37 posted on 08/07/2019 2:02:07 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Perseverando

Quite an amazing tale. I wonder why we were never taught this in screwl? Not even 60 or more years ago? I wonder?


38 posted on 08/07/2019 2:03:19 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Perseverando

Europe.


39 posted on 08/07/2019 2:04:41 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump IS MY president and I'm damn proud of him!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

You don’t even try, you pack your iron/copper tools and build a new one as needed on the other side after crossing the land by foot or beast. It is a very simple and practical concept.


40 posted on 08/07/2019 2:06:34 PM PDT by Openurmind
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