COLONIZATION WAS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BEING CONQUERED BY ISLAM by Scott De Warren A

COLONIZATION WAS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BEING CONQUERED BY ISLAM

by Scott De Warren

Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire.

Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).