From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,or.politics,aus.politics,sac.politics
Subject: Finally, a post "moored" in reality :-)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:07:24 -0400
Organization: None
Governor Swill wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> <snip>
>
> Yes. It did. The Moors conquered the Iberian Penninsula in the 8th
> century and and warred with Christian Europe for nearly 800 years. It
> took until 1492 for Christian Europe to drive them off the continent.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors>
>
> In the 9th century, the Moors conquered Sicily and southern Italy.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Sicily>
>
> All that said, the poster ignores that it was the Moors who collected
> much ancient Greek and Roman knowledge that had been lost when the
> Library at Alexandia burned and the western Roman Empire collapsed.
> They recruited Jewish scribes to translate these texts into Latin
> which were then distributed throughout Europe bringing vastly
> important scientific knowledge to Europe.
>
> The Moors were scientists themselves inventing alegbra and being
> competent and detailed observers of the skies. We can thank the Moors
> for the creation of modern astronomy out of the superstitious nonsense
> of astrology prevalent in Europe at the time.
>
> There were more libraries in Andalusian Spain than in all the rest of
> Europe combined. And while London was little more than a collection
> of muddy wooden huts, cities like Cordoba and Seville had streetlights
> at night and universities that attracted students from all over
> Europe, Africa and the middle east.
+1
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