> But it is meaningless since they did not write about it nor they stablished commerce.
The first African to climb Mt. Everest, you say? Well he didn’t help build a network of base camps so I’m just going to say that it’s meaningless.
The first African to climb Mt. Everest, you say? Well he didn’t help build a network of base camps so I’m just going to say that it’s meaningless.
One of the most important feats if not the most important of what we used to call the Age of Exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
This led to global trade that changed the face of the earth. It opened philosophical debates about human rights, the legality of wars, etc., which are still important today.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/#IusGent...
These debates led to the prohibition of American Indian slavery in... 1542!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
The first recorded christian marriage in current United States was an interracial union in 1565!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...
I could go on an on.
The Ottomans were famous for their slave trade and did capture tons of Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
Not only that, Aztecs and other indigenous peoples from the americas had Slavery as an institution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_slavery
Indigenous slavery ended with the New Laws