>>>If I'm not mistaken, the time things started to change were during Britain's and France's invasions of everything.
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>>>What we're seeing today in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is fallout from those adventures.
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>>Let's not make the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Belgians, and to some extent even Italians, Danes and occasional others feel forgotten here.
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>Napoleon invading Egypt is the event I had in mind.

He also tried invading Russia, he destroyed the forests in Dalmatia... and it's not just such episodes that matter. It's the whole "we of this Book are civilized while you lot are the barbarians and we're morally obliged to set you straight" attitude and the plundering that went on for a few centuries, justified by that attitude.

While there would hardly be any Renaissance had the Arabs not kept the Greek and Latin texts alive (and added to them) when The Church tried to eradicate any trace thereof.

>Any luck on those axioms? I warned you it gets messy real fast. Hehe.

I'm not even trying. It's your theory.