The two biggest contributers to the west's Renaissance were the Byzantine and the United Arab-Muslim empires ('Abbasid, Umayyad and Fatimids).
The Ottomans did the west a big favour by sacking Constantinople because all those Greek scholars fled to Italy with lost knowledge which helped to kickstart the Reanssiance.
The Crusadeswere also beneficial in one small way because it brought the west in contact with the Muslims.
The Catholic Kings (King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile) reconquest of Spain also brought preserved Graeco-romano and Muslim knowlege via the libraries at Cordoba, Seville and Granada.
Queen Isabella I of Castile
King Ferdinand II of Aragon
The West does not properly acknowlege the part played by the east in its modernity. Today the west in the shape of America illegally invaded Iraq, the place where civlization began, you could say the American conquest of Iraq is like the Mongol sacking of the city of Bagdad in 1258.
The Ottomans did the west a big favour by sacking Constantinople because all those Greek scholars fled to Italy with lost knowledge which helped to kickstart the Reanssiance.
The Crusadeswere also beneficial in one small way because it brought the west in contact with the Muslims.
The Catholic Kings (King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile) reconquest of Spain also brought preserved Graeco-romano and Muslim knowlege via the libraries at Cordoba, Seville and Granada.
Queen Isabella I of Castile
King Ferdinand II of Aragon
The West does not properly acknowlege the part played by the east in its modernity. Today the west in the shape of America illegally invaded Iraq, the place where civlization began, you could say the American conquest of Iraq is like the Mongol sacking of the city of Bagdad in 1258.
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