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True, but note also the influence of the (eastern) Roman Empire we now call the Byzantines, on the Renaissance, when Constantinople fell: https://en.wikipedia.o

• earthboundkid 6y ago
  Well one, no Ottomans, no fall of Byzantium, no Renaissance. :-) But more seriously, the Eastern Empire was in communication with their Muslim neighbors. For example, the iconoclastic controversy and the final resolution in favor of icons only makes sense in a context where your neighbors are much harder core than you are about idolatry and it’s embarrassing to the intelligentsia.