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>Ancient Greeks were great philosophers but then their knowledge was buried during the Dark Ages by Muslim conquerors Don't be silly. It was Christian Europe
by eli_gottlieb 8y ago
>Ancient Greeks were great philosophers but then their knowledge was buried during the Dark Ages by Muslim conquerors
Don't be silly. It was Christian Europe that lost and discarded the non-religious philosophical texts, and the Muslim Middle East that preserved them and advanced from them.
- dragonwriter 8y agoYeah, I mean, that's a even the standard narrative; the idea that they were lost due to Muslim conquest and rediscovered by Jesuits I've never heard before, and it isn't even superficially plausible since there was no general Muslim conquest for them to be lost in, and the Jesuits were formed too late to rediscover them and spark the Renaissance.