At the dawn of the 19th century the literacy rate there was 3%. A hundred years later it had climbed to 15%.

They also teach that Muslims discovered the New World

In Turkey or all the other muslim countries?

Turkey at least

Interesting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30067490

Vikings found it before that

And the Russians found it before that

and the Mongolians found it before that

Don't get me started on the Atlanteans

Muslims can't even read

Much less discover a continent

Really though they found proof of Vikings, a variety of Europeans, and Jews but no Muslims

Jews???

I'm more likely to believe the Chinese theory than that

Jews discovered North/South America?

lolwut? 🤣

Never heard that theory before.

Jews invented a LOT of shit. For a tiny persecuted minority they have done quite well. No other minorities have an excuse. But what they did not do was discover a continent

They've never really been a seafaring people

Yeah, I know they're responsible for loads of scientific knowledge. Which isn't their average IQ like 115 or something?

From what I gather, the Jews mostly moved into other countries that existed.

Not much pioneering in that sense.

Not sure if it's that high but they've always had a thing for amassing wealth and making their kids get an education

Plus it didn't help that the Europeans didn't want to mess with sciences or financial stuff.

Idea was to just let the jews do it.

Science yeah, Europeans have always been involved

But banking, sort of. The Templars were a huge bank of course but then there's the problem of usury

I know there's reasons for staying out of financial stuff..

Christians aren't allowed to charge interest

Yeah religious reasons for no interest.

But that law didn't apply to Jews, for practical reasons. Not too many people would get into banking and loaning money if there's no profit. So they exempted Jews and they filled the niche

As a result they were able to make a lot of money

Which I didn't mean to imply that the non-jewish europeans didn't make scientific discoveries.

Yeah, and the crusades helped them as a people group a lot. Everyone buying weapons and armor from the Jewish lenders.

Most of the science of the era came from Christian Europeans and the Chinese, of course isolated from each other

Tf

They casually assumed victory against the Austrians and made people think that the Russians, Poles and Prussians totally didn't smash them back to their bulge-necks?

Chinese were the first to discover the new world as there are ancient Chinese and Japanese anchors from boats off the coast of California.

And in BC Canada.