Yep our Muslim friends are responsible for lots of great inventions that we all use, clocks, maps, one of the first flying machines, the camera, coffee, Hospitals, Music, Surgical instruments, Universities etc etc. Pretty sure it was a Muslim woman that set up the first library too.
The Monroe Doctrine could be pointed too as the start of the USA's journey becoming a super power. It is basically a statement to Europe that the US sees the Americas as its backyard, and it will oppose attempts by Europe to extend its influence there. It was the justification for the US to extends its own influence into the Americas in order to do so.
This.
We'd have been smarter to stick to John Quincy Adams' view; look up his warning on seeking foreign monsters to slay.
Nevertheless, we kinda toed the line until Theodore Roosevelt came along. For as much as we worship the guy here, he was kind of a bastard in some ways.
Yep our Muslim friends are responsible for lots of great inventions that we all use, clocks, maps, one of the first flying machines, the camera, coffee, Hospitals, Music, Surgical instruments, Universities etc etc. Pretty sure it was a Muslim woman that set up the first library too.
Paul, I was wrong about a historian claiming middle east science ground to a stop with the Islamic religion. Turns out it was astrophysicist, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Nonetheless, I think everyone can agree Dr. Tyson's opinion holds considerable sway:
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