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Originally Posted by Shearwater
He couldn't change that "spirit", but he can be held responsible for how he acted within that framework.
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Ya mean this framework?
1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
1410: The Battle of Grunwald was the decisive battle of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War leading to the downfall of the Teutonic Knights.
1415: Henry the Navigator leads the conquest of Ceuta from the Moors marking the beginning of the Portuguese Empire.
1415: Battle of Agincourt fought between the Kingdom of England and France
1420–1434: Hussite Wars in Bohemia
1441: Portuguese navigators cruise West Africa and reestablish the European slave trade with a shipment of African slaves sent directly from Africa to Portugal.
1444: Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeats the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.
1453: The Fall of Constantinople marks the end of the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of the Growth of the Ottoman Empire.
1453: The Battle of Castillon is the last engagement of the Hundred Years' War and the first battle in European history where cannons were a major factor in deciding the battle.
1454–1466: After defeating the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years' War, Poland annexes Royal Prussia.
1455–1485: Wars of the Roses – English civil war between the House of York and the House of Lancaster.
1456: The Siege of Belgrade halts the Ottoman's advance into Europe.
That's just the first half of the 15th Century. It was a violent time when people died and were subjected to many things which would be considered attrocities today.
Columbo (1451–1506) was also a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, (1452–1519), and much of da Vinci's work was warlike and brutal, in its concept. Would you criticize da Vinci? He didn't raise his own sword, that we know of, but he did contribute to the world of the 15th century which we in the 21st century would consider brutal.