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Knights Templar, the Poor Fellow - Soldiers of Chr*st and of the Temple of Solomon, was maybe the most famous of the Christian military orders. It was created in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096. Armed with daggers, swords and shields, members of the Order played a key part in many battles of the Crusades. This was possible because they were both monks and soldiers, making them one of the earliest warrior monks in the Western world. The Order's infrastructure innovated many techniques that are the foundation of modern banking. Being almost millennium ahead of their time the Order gained wealth and power throughout Europe during two centuries in the Middle Ages. In 1307 King Philip IV of France had French Knights Templars arrested and burned at the stake. The speed of their disappearance has led to several Knights Templar legends.

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Christopher Columbus exposed as iron-fisted tyrant of colonies
Christopher Columbus was a despot who ruled his subjects with an iron fist, according to documents. The man who discovered America routinely tortured slaves and starved his subjects in colonies. He was known to have mistreated native people when he was viceroy in Santo Domingo. In 1500, Columbus was brought back from the city as a prisoner on the orders of the Spanish monarchs. Statements from 23 witnesses at his trial were uncovered by an archivist Isabel Aguirre. Consuelo Varela has studied the documents and believes it is the most important discovery about Columbus's life for a century. | by --- :: 2006-07-21 |

Chinese didn't discover America. But then nor did Columbus
Last week came purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama and Magellan. An 18th-century copy of a map dated 1418 has emerged from a Shanghai bookshop, depicting North and South America, Australia and Antarctica. The map was bought by a Chinese lawyer, and was reportedly to go on display in London's Maritime Museum. The map challenges the customary Euro-centric version of global discovery and can thus rely on a weight of political correctness in support. It appears to stake China's claim to have "discovered" America first. | by guardian :: 2006-04-17 |

Pre-Columbus map may be authentic: NZ study
A New Zealand university's research has suggested a 243-year-old map indicating a famous Chinese explorer discovered New Zealand, Australia and America before Europeans is probably not a fake. Carbon-dating shows that "there might be something in a theory that the Chinese discovered New Zealand before Europeans." The university's carbon-dating unit was asked to analyze a Chinese map allegedly dating back to 1763 and stating that it was a copy of a 1418 map. If authentic, the 1418 map by Chinese explorer Zheng He, which includes portrayals of America and Australia, was drawn 70 years before Christopher Columbus became the first European to land in America. | by xinhuanet :: 2006-02-25 |

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