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Part One: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse

Behind the Bastards

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The Fall of Jerusalem

The fall of jerusalem would have been very relevant to christopher columbus as a young person. The founding of the united states is about the same distance from you and me as the fall of jer Jerusalem was to columbus in his day. For some people, this was an actual, fervent belief that they devoted their lives to. But news didn't really travel back then, right? So, like, people just knew that a couple hundred years agothe the mongolians had been unstoppable,. and assumed they still were. And one of the things that themongolians did was basically melt down  the big moslem empire. It is narlishit

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