• Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Well the bottom picture was them trying to reclaim lost lands. Neither event was clean.

    Meme should show Christianity spreading to the new world. Much more one sided slaughter.

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      6 months ago

      Well the bottom picture was them trying to reclaim lost lands. Neither event was clean.

      Are you referring to the Crusades? Those weren’t really Christians “trying to reclaim lost lands,” since the Middle East was never “owned” by Christians. Christianity, especially Catholicism never really took root in the Middle East until much later, so the Pope declaring that all good Christians should join the Crusades really was a war of aggression.

      On the other hand, you could be referring to the reclamation of Spain, but I don’t think that’s what that painting is depicting.