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I don't really see what much of your Nietzsche quote had to do with this post
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The quote was to question the idea of the great white race and Europe/America as being the only nation who ever achieved anything worthy.
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I just thought I should clear up a few things about history. Yes Christians suppressed cultures but Islam and others are equally guilty of this.
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Every empire has been an expansionist one for political and economic reasons, this I was not questioning.
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and put an end to the silk road which was a largely peaceful melting pot of many cultures trading and spreading knowledge
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And they were also responsible for transmitting the knowledge of the Greeks that they had embraced and assimilated which they translated into Arabic and spread from Moorish Spain to Europe which ultimately fuelled the renaissance in Europe.
Just thought I'd wade in and clear up a few things about history.