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Note: I'm not taking sides, but just trying to be factual. This is very misleading. It was, in fact, Islam that was the cause of the 'golden age'. The Arabs ex
by truetraveller 10y ago
Note: I'm not taking sides, but just trying to be factual.
This is very misleading. It was, in fact, Islam that was the cause of the 'golden age'. The Arabs existed for centuries with ~nil progress. If you notice, almost 99% of the inventors were Muslims, and based on their writings, dedicated ones.
- jlebrech 10y agothey did a lot of hostile takeovers and suffered later on from a culture problem.
- dreen 10y agoWhat about the Persian empires, the Sassanids for instance? They had built huge military and civic structures, and rivalled the Roman Empire in many areas, but weren't as expansionist. Please correct me if I'm wrong, not a historian but it seems to me whatever the 'golden age' was, it would happen regardless of whether the dominant religion was Islam, Arian Christianity or whatever else.
- zeveb 10y agoI think it's fairer to say that the conquest of developed (Byzantine) Romans & Farsis by the newly-Islamic Arabs enabled the conquerors to reap the fruits of antiquity.