Posted on 08/04/2020 7:42:03 AM PDT by Perseverando
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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