Was Islam the cause of Europe's future despisal for people

>>2553467
massilia

>Naval based trading empires tended to expand towards places with resources that they could sail to

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>>2553467
Egypt and the rest of the eastern provinces were a good deal wealthier than the western and northern ones so naturally the Romans wanted to expand into wealthy and populous Egypt over Germania
With the rise of Islam and the survival of the Byzantines, the Mediterranean was divided for the first time in centuries, so it could no longer be the location around which European civilization was centered.

Actium was.

>>2553467
Africans were Romanised.
Then barbarians took over both Europe and Africa.

Eurobarbarians were all united under Christianity.
Afrobarbarians weren't. Islam was the final nail in the coffin to decide which cultural group former barbarian tribes, Vandals, Berbers, Goths, Gauls, could ally/stay with which.

So yes, in a way.

>>2554339
>muh resources
But Islamic (and Christian I'll admit) prejudices effectivelly hindered or cut off trade.

If it wasn't for the Turks killing Constantinople Europe never would've looked west for new trading routes.

That's incredible considering even when the Parthians/Persians were around merchants still had permission to move through.

Asian and Indian breedings the reason of cadcadence waves that pushed Europe's shit in. We even nuked them they still don't get the fucking message.

>>2553467
>African and eastern provinces
Yeah they wanted the grain and the grain alone. Do you really think they went around singing the praises of the North African peasants who lived there?