Columbus revealed his motivation for setting sail Aug. 3, 1492, with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria on his first voyage to find a sea route to India and China, as the Islamic Ottoman state had closed off the land routes nearly 40 years earlier.
The background of the Islamic state occupying large areas of Europe began when Muslim crusaders, called “Moors,” invaded Spain in 711 A.D. With a cavalry of 80,000, Moors wielding curved scimitar swords, they “went through all places like a desolating storm.”
The Mozarabic Chronicle, 754 A.D., recorded that thousands of churches were burned and: “God alone knows the number slain.
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