children were taught. catalog of one of the library had 40 volumes. the followers of muhammad achieved much in science, particularly with chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and medicine. that sounds delicious, doesn t it? it sounds like it s all sunshine and lollipops. but let s now look how the christians fared in the same test from new york city schools and new york state schools. ready? excerpt from the lifting of the common procedures used by christians and the friars to introduce christianity in latin america. states, idols, temples and other material evidenced of paganism destroyed. christian buildings often constructed with site, on the site of destroyed native temples to symbolize and emphasize the substitution of one religion by another.