The Dominican Friar and philosopher Campanella recommended that in order to defeat an empire like the Ottomans that one should encourage its people to engage in pointless and petty theological and philosophical disputes with each other because "bookishness weakens a people" and to weaken their moral fiber with vices like gambling.

Interestingly for Europeans he proposed banning studying Hebrew and Greek in order to stop them from fighting each other and for them to learn Arabic so that they would be focused completely on destroying the Ottomans

Much to consider