January 2 1492. Boabdil, the last emir of the Kingdom of Granada has just the keys to the city to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, "crying like a woman he had known how to defend like a man" as the saying goes. The Reconquista is complete. Thirty nine years after the catastrophic fall of Constantinople to the Turks, Christians have managed to drive the Mohammedans of the ancient Hispania. Will they push further the recovery of territory in the late Roman Empire? Dare to use their growing economic and technological advantage against the civilizations of the south shore to establish beachheads in North Africa and the Mediterranean secure? Will they dump their excess population future to colonize and develop the fertile lands of Egypt and the hinterland of Algiers? No, none of this because the same year Columbus discovered America, so totally unexpected event that capital, and that will change the course of history.
energy countries in Europe, so far devoted to the recovery of territories lost to the Muslims, is now vested in the colonization of regions across the Atlantic. The turn, slow enough to not be obvious at first glance is little doubt when the years became decades. Despite Lepanto few decades later and the union of Christians on this occasion, the interests of the Old Continent are moving permanently to the west. Mediterranean will be abandoned by the big powers are not the kingdoms italics, more divided than ever, which may influence the balance.
Europeans to colonize the New World with the energy and vigor that they know, destroying civilizations refined and complex, but in the best case, remained in the Bronze Age. Never in the history of mankind such differential military had opposed two civilizations. It was as if the conquistadors bearing muskets and cannons landed in Greece gymnètes and private horses. For the first time, our ancestors discovered a continent to which they can connect in any way, the otherness led to the largest. Far from their homeland and convinced never to return, without any European woman near the white conquerors will take root in their area of adoption, marrying indigenous women and African slaves converted with the blessing of the Church more Catholic than ever. More north and later in the icy bay of Massachusetts, the English colonists, persuaded to be the new Hebrews left everything in the European Babylon to build a new Jerusalem in America. Very symbolic. 1492 has somehow opened the doors of miscegenation and uprooting politicized, even sacred considered as the founding pillars of the new country of America. Europe is no longer available. Place in the West.
Meanwhile, the Mediterranean becomes a backyard, a region where the decline in pirates Mohammedans will law until 1830 and capture of Algiers, causing the nerve to capture American vessels .... Imagine if the Viking raids in northern Europe had continued until the first third of the nineteenth century! Now you understand why the Europeans built their villages on the Mediterranean rocky peaks f defensible ritten in an easy, amid poor and arid lands, rather than the heart of the valleys or along coastlines. Curiously, it was exactly in 1492, just when Europe could finally regain mare nostrum, drive the Ottomans from Europe and restore the empire of Augustus she chose not not continue the mission that it was set. It is an irony that this most powerful in its West Indies West for thousands of miles from its original home in the Strait of Sicily! Westerners, future masters of the world, were never as low as in the Mediterranean of Pericles and Caesar. Facing the enemy the sidewalk opposite, she toured the block. A white flight geopolitical ...
Without America, no tomatoes or corn, but not of Manifest Destiny or "black issue". No thalassocracy but tellurocratie , Mediterranean not again becoming a lake. Instead of starting a new Jerusalem, we might have taken possession of the former . To absorb its surplus population, it is likely that Europe had sent his son to the millions of war against the common enemy, showing Hagia Sophia after epic battles in the streets of Constantinople red with blood. More than a thousand years later, the meeting of the Western Roman Empire and the Orient.
energy countries in Europe, so far devoted to the recovery of territories lost to the Muslims, is now vested in the colonization of regions across the Atlantic. The turn, slow enough to not be obvious at first glance is little doubt when the years became decades. Despite Lepanto few decades later and the union of Christians on this occasion, the interests of the Old Continent are moving permanently to the west. Mediterranean will be abandoned by the big powers are not the kingdoms italics, more divided than ever, which may influence the balance.
Europeans to colonize the New World with the energy and vigor that they know, destroying civilizations refined and complex, but in the best case, remained in the Bronze Age. Never in the history of mankind such differential military had opposed two civilizations. It was as if the conquistadors bearing muskets and cannons landed in Greece gymnètes and private horses. For the first time, our ancestors discovered a continent to which they can connect in any way, the otherness led to the largest. Far from their homeland and convinced never to return, without any European woman near the white conquerors will take root in their area of adoption, marrying indigenous women and African slaves converted with the blessing of the Church more Catholic than ever. More north and later in the icy bay of Massachusetts, the English colonists, persuaded to be the new Hebrews left everything in the European Babylon to build a new Jerusalem in America. Very symbolic. 1492 has somehow opened the doors of miscegenation and uprooting politicized, even sacred considered as the founding pillars of the new country of America. Europe is no longer available. Place in the West.
Meanwhile, the Mediterranean becomes a backyard, a region where the decline in pirates Mohammedans will law until 1830 and capture of Algiers, causing the nerve to capture American vessels .... Imagine if the Viking raids in northern Europe had continued until the first third of the nineteenth century! Now you understand why the Europeans built their villages on the Mediterranean rocky peaks f defensible ritten in an easy, amid poor and arid lands, rather than the heart of the valleys or along coastlines. Curiously, it was exactly in 1492, just when Europe could finally regain mare nostrum, drive the Ottomans from Europe and restore the empire of Augustus she chose not not continue the mission that it was set. It is an irony that this most powerful in its West Indies West for thousands of miles from its original home in the Strait of Sicily! Westerners, future masters of the world, were never as low as in the Mediterranean of Pericles and Caesar. Facing the enemy the sidewalk opposite, she toured the block. A white flight geopolitical ...
Without America, no tomatoes or corn, but not of Manifest Destiny or "black issue". No thalassocracy but tellurocratie , Mediterranean not again becoming a lake. Instead of starting a new Jerusalem, we might have taken possession of the former . To absorb its surplus population, it is likely that Europe had sent his son to the millions of war against the common enemy, showing Hagia Sophia after epic battles in the streets of Constantinople red with blood. More than a thousand years later, the meeting of the Western Roman Empire and the Orient.
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