Should Arabs have credit for the discovery of America by forcing

not any more than a butterfly flapping its wings should have credit for a cyclone

>>3075020
You mean Ottoman Turks?

>>3075020
What? No

>>3075020
no because they didn't discover it, dummy

Should h*tler be credited for making the jews create Israel

>>3075052
I mean yes but that's not really the same thing as OP's situation

>>3075020
>Arabs
Turks*

>>3075107
>>3075031
yes, my bad

>>3075020
The Iberians are kind of like arabs.

>>3075107
>>3075031
The Portuguese Age of Discovery was caused by Both Turkish conquest of Constantinople and Arabic monopoly on the Indian Sea

No.

But it is true that the triangular sail wasn't really a new invention - it had been introduced before in the Levant either by the arabs or even before

>>3075020
Since when did the portuguese discovered America

>>3075349
Since Brazil

>>3075020
No. The iberians would have looked for alternative routes regardless, since their aim was cutting off middlemen, not avoiding specific countries.
Also "they created an issue so they're partly to be credited for the solution" is literally broken window fallacy.

>>3075365
Since Brazil what