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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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This is what the map looked like in 1200 AD:
http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1200/index.html
Shit changes. That's how the world was back then. Warlords would invade territory because of religious reasons (Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu whatever) or because they could.
Muslims often invaded areas to "protect Muslims" in the same manner as Christians. Muslim bigshots were rich from shipping trade around the Indian Ocean -- they used the money to build Mosques and promote Islam (to promote more trade). Then when Islam converts were inevitably attacked in some city by the pagans (less often Christians), the bigshot sends in his army to "protect Muslims" and take a city.
Muslims and Christians are very similar is all I'm saying. They did the same kind of stuff. Your big point is Muslims did it first...whatever. That was in 700 fucking AD wasn't it?
Now a days. Christians and Muslims continue to be very similar IMO. They just can't see it. |
finland isn't on this map
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