How The West Won: The Neglected Story Of The Triumph Of Modernity - Plot & Excerpts
Immediately, the twenty-six-year-old Turk began to pursue his boyhood dream of conquering the West and imposing the True Faith on the Christian infidel.1 It would be a two-pronged attack: sending a huge army overland into Europe through the Balkans and taking control of the Mediterranean in order to land armies on the coasts of Italy, France, and Spain. The plan was so monumental that Suleiman continues to be known as “Suleiman the Magnificent”—even though, after he had scored a few unimportant victories, Europeans smashed his armies and sank his navy, just as they had done to his ancestors’ forces centuries before during the Crusades. Despite this record, far too many recent Western historians promulgate politically correct illusions about Islamic might, as well as spurious claims that once upon a time Islamic science and technology were far superior to that of a backward and intolerant Europe. But, as Suleiman discovered, wishing doesn’t make it so. Misleading Victories Over the centuries Muslims had come to remember the conquest of the crusader kingdoms as a major demonstration of their superior military power.
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