... areas, establishing power and status as an empire to be both feared and respected, as they later proved to Phillip II. After the Holy Christian League destroyed the entire Ottoman navy, they not only had enough resources to rebuilt it, but to also capture the city of Tunis ... . In 1529, yet another religion and power fueled clash occurred when a Christian incursion into Muslim territory triggered a response by Adal as a Muslim holy war. Ethiopia received help in 1541 from a fleet of Portuguese with artillery and musketeers, while Adal received help from Ottoman Muslims with artillery an...

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