Posted on 08/04/2020 7:42:03 AM PDT by Perseverando
Columbus set sail on his first voyage AUGUST 3, 1492, with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria.
He explained how the Spanish monarchs approved his plan:
"... And ordained that I should not go by land (the usual way) to the Orient (East), but by the route of the Occident (West), by which no one to this day knows for sure that anyone has gone."
Why did he seek to find a sea route to India and China?
Because 40 years earlier Islamic Ottoman Turks closed off the land routes.
The background to Columbus' voyage goes back to the Islamic invasion of the Byzantine Empire, then the conquest of areas around the Mediterranean Sea, and then occupation of Spain.
In 711 AD, the commander of the Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," was Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad.
Ṭāriq 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."
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.)
As a result of this invasion, Pope Leo IV built a massive wall, 39-feet high, to protect
(Excerpt) Read more at myemail.constantcontact.com ...
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
I’ll take “Muslims” for $1000, Alex................
1492 was also the deadline for all Jews to leave Spain if they did not convert to Catholicism, or face execution and/or confiscation of wealth.
But, But the Crusades...
“Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks”
Yup, and India wasn’t India; India was Hindustan and Columbus was looking for a route to the Indies (Malay Archipelago, Philippines and a few others East Asian locations.)
all these anti-Columbus people seem to think that if Columbus hadn’t come Europeans would have never come. They fail to realize that sooner or later someone, probably the Chinese would have come. How do you think the Indians would have fared under Chinese rule?
1492 was also the deadline for all Jews to leave Spain if they did not convert to Catholicism, or face execution and/or confiscation of wealth.
“They fail to realize that sooner or later someone, probably the Chinese would have come.”
Well, if Columbus hadn’t come, the Portuguese would still inevitably have discovered and colonized Brazil just a few years later. They had a colony on Cape Verde, which is directly between Africa and Brazil, they were sailing regularly up and down the coast of Africa, and they were using new sailing techniques that involved sailing away from land and into the Atlantic to take advantage of the Trade Winds. So combine those three facts and the Portuguese discovering Brazil becomes just a matter of them rolling the dice enough times to get lucky.
Did you mean the "first" Muslim crusades, almost 400 years before the first Christian crusades?
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In 711 AD, the commander of the Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," was Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad.
Ṭāriq 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."
It was The MOOPS
I should have put the /s tag to be more clear.
The “aggression” was 99% one way.
If there were affirmative action, white people would have enabled the Indians to discover Europe. But, those white people, they wanted to “discover” all the continents, “invent” all the inventions, “develop” all the laws of science, “write” all the literature, and “create” all the wealth without thinking of what this would do to the self-esteem on people of color. It only reminds people how disproportionate advances have been to point out that a person of color developed X number of uses of peanut butter. There I go, X developed by Rene Descartes, a white person. That white supremacy stuff is everywhere. This is why we have to get rid of history, science, capitalism, and everything else.
The Americas were basically hiding in plain sight -- it was just a matter of when and who, not if America were to be discovered.
Consider that the Vikings made it to Newfoundland long before Columbus sailed.
Bill Warner gives a pretty good discussion about Islamic aggression in Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wugWj42pLI
Muslims.
Click The Pic
Indeed, in the year 1500 a Portuguese explorer on the way to India was blown off course and landed in Brazil.
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