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Is this a joke? During the Middle Ages, Europe was a feudal backwater of peasant farmers and small continuously warring kingdoms. Scientific and mathematical kn
by jacobolus 10y ago
Is this a joke? During the Middle Ages, Europe was a feudal backwater of peasant farmers and small continuously warring kingdoms. Scientific and mathematical knowledge (optics, mechanics, astronomy, medicine, ...) throughout the Muslim world was considerably further developed, and there were well organized and well funded cultural institutions devoted to scientific research (not to mention much wider access to traded luxury goods, more resources devoted to fine arts, greater literary output, much more sophisticated financial/business operations, etc.). If Greek and Roman works hadn’t been preserved in Arabic translation in great libraries in prosperous Islamic cities, many would not survive to today. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to_Medieval_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to...
- adictator 10y agoI truly wish it was a joke. You and countless others have been brainwashed (wikipedia is just one such medium) to believe in the greatness of a group a people who knew nothing but to plunder and kill .. just because their beliefs were different, It is happening even now, around you, yet you are oblivious... maybe until it comes right to your doorstep, by which time it will be too late. Maybe you mean that the way of the sword works in mysterious ways, one of which is the preservation of great Greek & Roman works? Maybe you have a point... all I am urging you to is to look at this objectively.
- adictator 10y agoMaybe a scholarly article to help you (because videos from PhD's are not classy enough): https://www.academia.edu/8749355/Islamic_Inventions_were_Roman_Greek_and_Persian https://www.academia.edu/8749355/Islamic_Inventions_were_Rom...