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posted 5 hours ago by green_man on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +36Score on mirror )
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Erase99 on scored.co
1 hour ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Good to know, excellent commentary.
devotech2 on scored.co
1 hour ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
It really just boils down to a false correlation between standard imperialism and colonization. The Mongols conquered everything in their path, but barely left a genetic signature anywhere at all because they never actively colonized anything. The British and Spanish on the other hand left an enormous genetic signature behind in north and south America, obviously because they actually colonized things. The romans are another example, they didn't colonize shit but they built an empire. The Han chinese conquered and colonized, etc.

The Arabs simply conquered some land and colonized other land. Full scale colonizing a land as contentious and also far away as Europe was would have been a logistical nightmare for any caliph to undertake, and its rather unlikely that any arab civilians would want to, so their holdings in the northwest tended to be polities under arab administration, with a population of mostly native converts to islam and native christians. Even al andalus, the longest standing Islamic holding in Europe, was an example of such. By the end of the reconquista, pretty much the only true Arabs who even had power were the monarchs themselves. Even the nobility was mostly made up of genetically spanish converts (or, rather, descendants of spanish converts).

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
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