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Why are you being downvoted? Could you expand on this? Japan fought Catholic influence and traded with Portugal. Seems like there could be a good theory behind
by readyplayernull 3y ago
Why are you being downvoted? Could you expand on this? Japan fought Catholic influence and traded with Portugal. Seems like there could be a good theory behind this point.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why are you being downvoted? Could you expand on this? Why were the Portuguese, a technologically inferior civilisation at the time of the Islamic Golden Age, able to take anything from them? Going from the 9th century to 19th would be analogous to someone time travelling forward a millenium to find a world in which Haiti is the world's superpower. Like, cool. But what happened? How did that inversion take place?
- DrNosferatu 3y agoI’m dead serious: a lot of navigation instruments and maths that enabled the Portuguese discoveries were learned from the Arabs next door. Why I’m being downvoted, I would risk it’s because HN can’t handle the tiniest bit of tongue in cheek…
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> a lot of navigation instruments and maths that enabled the Portuguese discoveries were learned from the Arabs next door And a lot of Islamic mathematics and science were based on the work of the Greeks. Adapting knowledge isn't stealing it. Paritcularly when we're discussing two colonial powers, where "stealing" is a directly applicable term. > because HN can’t handle the tiniest bit of tongue in cheek HN upvotes jokes when they're good. Insubstantive and not funny, on the other hand, no.
- DrNosferatu 3y agoCalm down - I’m just using a metaphor to point out a relevant historic fact. No judgement of value whatsoever implied in either direction.