Cordoba was Spain you dumbfuck! Spain was one of Europe's most advanced societies until it succumbed to about 500 years of Muslim attacks. The Satanic Muslims looted and enslaved Spain's finest as the bastards did elsewhere that they conquered. The bastard Muslims committed piracy across the Mediterranean seas and controlled the Silk Roads and these stifled trade for Europe and even China. This is why the Europeans decided to colonize the Moose Limps so that trade could again be free from piracy. With trade came peace and prosperity and growth in human advancement. The bastard Satanic Moose Limps live solely on warring and looting. You just have to look at Moose Limp countries to see they have no interest in human advancement. The Islamic scripture they read has more or less been the same since Pedo Mo was around. They've always been a useless demonic bastards that live on others' hardwork.
Thanks to moose limps creating problems on the silk roads. Western explorers decided to sail west instead of east to reach the eastern lands. At that time some people believed that the earth was flat but thanks to Galileo Galilei for example people started to believe the world was round and figured they could sail west which was unknown to them at that time in uncharted waters to reach asia. They didn't know they founded 2 new continents.