Columbus, Islam, and Native Americans sheds light on a crucial aspect of the biography of Christopher Columbus that is generally missed: a primary force behind Columbus’s Atlantic crossings was his and other Europeans’ fears of and conflict with Islam. This shaped how Europeans engaged with the “New World” and its native peoples for centuries and continues to shape how today’s Americans and Europeans understand the world.
The video is based on chapter 6–11 of God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World, a book by Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University.
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