Quote Originally Posted by oudysseos

Without the availability of 400,000 books captured from the Moors at Cordoba, or the works plundered by crusaders from Constantinople and the mid-EAST, there would have been no Renaissance, and no 'westernism'.
i agree with much of what you are saying, but i think you have certainly overstepped the mark here. it would be very hard to convincingly argue that without those events the renaissance would never have happened. the paucity of knowledge in western europe is often exagerated for starters.

p.s you should be ashamed to reference black athena. if the copy is your own i suggest you burn it.