[@Aisling] "They do," Dracula said. "If you read old descriptions of Islamic hospitals, you might mistake them for descriptions of modern ones. Coffee, yogurt and the guitar are further examples of inventions that came from there. They also had something that might have been a predecessor of religious freedom: If you were held hostage by the Ottomans, they weren't allowed to treat you worse for your religion. Here in the Christian world, this was a whole lot different. And they had better strategies when it came to war, which made them so successful when it came to conquering other countries."