Fall of Constantinople = 1453.
Posted on 10/11/2020 9:24:53 PM PDT by MacNaughton
Christopher Columbus, the most famous explorer in history, was once a celebrated hero. Now, many consider him a villain, a despoiler of paradise. So which version of Columbus is true? Michael Knowles answers this question and offers some much-needed historical perspective.
Fall of Constantinople = 1453.
Colunbus = Columbus. Fat fingers.
Ferdinand and Isabella had crushed the Muslim invaders and cast them out of Spain in 1491.
They needed access to spices and silks other than the “silk road”
Moreover, they were thankful to God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for having granted them victory over the infidel invaders and were hoping to spread the true faith to the distant lands of the Far East.
Thus, they were delighted to sponsor the Italian explorer and adventurer.
Bfl.
Turkey: The most appropriately named country.
Also, Columbus day was created in America after about 50 lynchings of Sicilians and Italians in Louisiana from about 1892-1920.
Columbus day was created to teach the American people to not be bigots.
It’s Un-American to trash Columbus day.
Much like our own President Johnson (honorable mention to Cracker Barrel)
The unflattering depiction of Columbus was posited by Howard Zinn whose history books are used in colleges. Zinn’s source about Columbus was a communist.
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The Turks took Constantinople in 1453, 39 years before Columbus' voyage. That led to the Portuguese voyages around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean, and to India and points east.
"Death in the Morning" examines the standardisation of precious metal with the touchstone in the ancient world. This innovation stimulated trade from Greece to Persia, ultimately causing the construction of a huge commercial center and library at Alexandria which included Ptolemy's star tables. This wealth of astronomical knowledge aided navigators during the age of discovery 14 centuries later following the introduction of lateen sails and sternpost rudders. Mariners discovered that the compass's magnetised needle did not actually point directly north. Investigations into the nature of magnetism by Gilbert led to the discovery of electricity by way of the sulphur ball of von Guericke. Further interest in atmospheric electricity at the Ben Nevis weather station led to Wilson's cloud chamber which in turn allowed development of both Watson-Watt's radar and (by way of Rutherford's insights) nuclear weaponry.James Burke Connections, Ep. 2 "Death in the Morning"
Happy Columbus day, folks.
JoMa
Without Columbus, the civilisations of Central and South America would still be practicing human sacrifice on a massive scale. And post Christian North America is today doing the same, and the dead bodies are being dismembered and sold. Even the followers of Moloch did not sink that low.
Love the left and their love and protection of the Innocent indigenous peoples who were busy slaughtering their rivals, lopping heads for sacrifices to their gods and many other assorted acts of kindness before Columbus hit their shores
Thanksgiving Day here in Canada. Happy Columbus Day to all in America!
The competition with the Portuguese for another route to India and the Far East was also a factor. This was the beginning of a race for global empire among the Catholic European powers that would precede and parallel the later competition with the emergent Protestant European powers.
The Portuguese had been steadily working their way down the coast of Africa starting in the mid 1400s. The Portuguese were skilled navigators but the instruments and charts needed for full open ocean voyaging far from land were just in their earliest days of development. So these initial voyages carefully worked their way south following the west coast of Sub-Saharan Africa looking for lands end (ultimately found at the Cape of Good Hope) and passage into the Indian Ocean.
The possibility of a new direct route to the Far East by sailing west across the Atlantic being offered by Columbus would be appealing to Los Reyes Católicos (as Ferdinand and Isabella are sometimes referred to).
It was risky (but not terribly so) and the possible rewards from direct trade with the Orient were enormous if the gamble paid off.
And it did.
(Often overshadowed by the magnitude of the “discovery of the Americas” is the fact that Spain ran a virtual conveyor belt of ships between the Americas and the Far East for centuries exchanging silver mined in central and south America for Chinese luxury goods. Those goods were transferred across the Isthmus of Panama and, along with gold from the Americas, shipped back to Europe. This fueled piracy in the Caribbean and, to a lesser extent, in the eastern Pacific. Considering inevitable shipping losses, there are probably some valuable treasures in deep waters along the Pacific sailing routes. The richness of the Caribbean wrecks is long since well established.)
Wikipedia - Tzompantli/ skull rack
Mohammedans controlled the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Persian gulf, making it very difficult to sail to India. Columbus knew the Westerly anti-trade winds off the canarie islands, and the easterly trade winds from the azores...
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