le fall of Rome never stops hogging the spotlight becaus right wingers can't let go of their failed state that happened to be the colonialism and fascism progenitor, but objectively speaking the fall of islamic Iberia was many times worse, an actual setback in both cultural and material terms.>A tour of different regions reconquered by Europeans tells the tale. In Sicily, the Arabs had used irrigation to grow sugar, cotton, citrus fruits, artichokes, spinach, and eggplant. Under European control, Sicily reverted to a more basic agricultural regime of growing wheat and grazing livestock, and Sardinia followed the same pattern. In Arab Andalusia, the great cities of Seville and Cordoba featured intricate multicropping of wheat, olives, and irrigated gardens for many other crops. After the European conquest, both were reduced to sheepherding towns.Valencia was the one exception from the general trend of simplification and primitivization of agriculture.
>The brutality was not restricted to the economic realm, with Muslims and Jews facing forced conversion and expulsion in previously vibrant multiethnic, multicultural centers of learning that reintroduced Christian Europe to Aristotle. The massacre of the first matriarchal civilization in Old Europe honestly is the only thing to come to mind that rivals such tragedy. Had Old Europe prevailed there could be some actual counterbalance to the overabundance of Patriarchy in our world.
If al andalus existed today they would be part of the abraham accords and twerk for israel like the useless sandniggers that they are
>>18589495Sorry your inbred pedophile colonists got killed.
>>18589508Israelis are genetically closer to Europeans than Iranians so that would make Al-Andalus less brown-coded than Spain.
>>18589495>muh civilizational setbackIncoherent despair over an abstract entity. You sound like a greedy billionaire crying about muh economy and shit.>We have to import a gorillion filthy low IQ foreigners to help the economy (to keep money flowing into my pockets).>Fuck you for thinking you might be able to afford a home by the way since the population was decreasing. I need to house my slaves.Life became infinitely better for Spaniards when Muslims and North Africans were kicked out because they finally got their community back. What makes a society good is the company you get to keep. Not muh GDP, not muh civilization, not extra money in the pockets of the 0.01%. Paradise on earth was a mud hut on a farm in desolate underpopulated rural northern Europe because nobody had to endure the presence of a single low IQ ill-behaved brown with a schizophrenic religion from the middle east.
