I can see this now being downvoted. Sadly, we still have some medieval revisionists also in 2016! Please take some time to read more on the subject rather than

I can see this now being downvoted. Sadly, we still have some medieval revisionists also in 2016! Please take some time to read more on the subject rather than to just say "this never happened" just because you don't like it (i.e: revisionism). What I posted was a way to challenge the western view of "we figured it all out ourselves", where in reality, we borrowed inspiration from many cultures and then erased the ones we didn't like from history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th... Crediting the right people for their achievements is fundamental for being a real meritocracy. A racist theocentric revisionist view of the world is not a meritocracy.