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
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Same reason. Jews were Muslims allies in the conquest and subjugation of the Spanish.
The whole anti-Columbus thing is totally ridiculous and baseless-the issue shouldn’t be who discovered the Americas-but who DIDN’T...
Archaeological evidence from Canada to Chile and everywhere in between shows that Columbus was a late-comer to the Americas-he was able to give Spain the ability to be the first to exploit the resources he found because he had the backing of royalty who had unlimited gold and influence to claim the place before their enemies did and get first dibs on all the goodies like treasure and slaves-none of the previous visitors in 1000’s of years had backing and resources like that, so they either just settled down to live here or left-although it appears the Vikings made a good run at claiming it...
Democrats? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? 👴
In 732 Charles Martel (The Hammer) stopped the Muslim advance into Europe at the Battle of Tours. The link below lists several articles about the battle. Also dozens of clickable pictures leading to other important and historical battles for the battle buffs here.
If you want some idea of how many Old World peoples discovered America, find Gloria Farley’s book “They All Discovered America.” We were discovered over and over for millenia, but Columbus’ expedition was the first one that was maintained. Portuguese fishermen had been visiting The Grand Banks of Newfoundland before 1492. The Vikings probably brought smallpox to the US/Canadian northeast, which is why when the Pilgrams landed at Cape Cod, they were not met by a large force of hostile braves. I was at Epcot Center in Disney/Orlando decades ago and and saw a “Mayan” ceramic that I would swear had been painted by a Japanese. They might have traded with the American west coast. As DNA results accumulate, we will learn more and more interesting things about mobile humanity.
Read Pohl’s “The Time Patrol”
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