>Let me put it in other words. Before, and even after, Columbus "discovered" the New World, Europeans were also killing each other quite frequently. Hey, even when tired of fighting each other, they move the war to the east. Now, do you think that arabs were fighting each other even more than their contemporary Europeans? or Native Americans for that matter?
Lets see...around the time of Columbus, it would have been the Turks beating up on everyone in the Middle East. Pretty nasty time, unless you compare it to the depredations of the Mongols before them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#Growth_.281453.E2.80.931683.29
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