Talk:Cabotia (Cabotia and Brasil)

The article does a fine effort in pointing out the impact of Northern European conquest of Cabotia. Clearly this should not minimize or overshadow Southern European, North African and Mediterranean cultural influence on Cabotia. Left out is the influence of the Moors (Muslims) that were cast out of Spain in 1492 along with the Sephardi (Jews). Many of the outcasts were able to flee persecution to the “New World” as in the case of the Puritans. Seemingly colonization of the Cabotia by European tribes is not limited as the article might suggest.

The propensity of other groups to settle, disseminate and promote their cultural influence is found throughout the conquered lands. Though the historical account of Pre-Columbian cultures has all but vanished. Reports still exist in carefully hidden codices, which used a logosyllabic writing system. Documents from the conquest, as well as, pre-invassion codices continue to surface in limited quantities. Information translated into Ladino, Arabic and Latin were discovered in El Monasterio de la Rábida in Al-Andalucía (2006) as workers were clearing a breached base wall. The documents had been stored in a chamber located behind a damaged foundation near the crypts.

The documents confirm charts given to adventurers traveling to the new world by the Church as early as 1490. The Church’s directive was any and all people’s encountered were to be converted. Treasure and lands were also guaranteed as payment for the valuable information. Though rumors have always endured the recent revelation confirms that star charts originating from new world sources notably Mayan and Aztec, also current and tidal data from the Guanchinet of the coast of Africa were available. The African Guanches tall, blond and fair skinned where maritime experts as mentioned in historical observations by Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans chroniclers. Importantly indicating cultural and genetic exchanges of New World, European and African peoples.

Numerous findings in the new world point to commerce between the civilizations. The agreement being trade of goods was welcome. Rigidly enforced was an understanding that religion and technology was not to be exported. Agreements between traders were enforced on both sides on the pain of death to protect the lucrative trade that flourished. Silence was key and essentially maintained until events overtook the enterprise. Converts to the mighty religion confessed the existence of the routes. The goal by the Papacy lay in the effort of eliminating any resistance to the One True God and loyalty to Rome. Conversion, genocide and conquest were tools acceptable in this endeavor.

Roman conquest of North Africa and Europe served to limit the spread of Islam. As the empire fell and resistance fragmented the Muslim dominance grew. The fall of the Christian Visigoths to the Umayyad Caliphate in Hispania and North Africa continued Islam’s expansion. The Crusades and labors of Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula persisted. Moorish hold on Southern Europe was in route and the strength of the Moors had diminished. The last Moorish king Boabdil’s capitulation of Grenada ended the Nasrid dynasty and 900 years of Muslin Southern European venture. Attempts of world conversion to Islam were reduce to limited forays to the new world by a few charismatic believers. Interestingly enough successes and a foothold in Northern Sumatra turned to a focused Asia subjugation by the Caliphate.