How Columbus Ruined The Islamic World
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💵 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/hikmahistory 💵 https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12397811 Al-Muqaddimah poster in the background: almuqaddimah.com For centuries, the Islamic world sat at the centre of the most valuable trade network in human history — the Silk Road. The great cities of the Islamic world — Baghdad, Cairo, Samarkand, Bukhara — were wealthy because they were nodes in a global trading system. Merchants, scholars, goods and ideas flowed through them constantly. Then, in 1492, Columbus sailed west. And in 1498, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope around Africa and reached India by sea. This double whammy made the old ones almost obsolete. The Ottoman Empire, Persia, the Mughal Empire — all of them lost their strategic position as the indispensable link between East and West. The wealth that had flowed through Damascus, Herat and Isfahan began flowing instead through Seville, Amsterdam and London. The commercial engine that had funded everything — the courts, the l
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