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The modern history if the middle east shows that it's easier for them to kill and pillage than build and invent. Is it a culture thing or the nature of the peop
by myth_drannon 3y ago
The modern history if the middle east shows that it's easier for them to kill and pillage than build and invent. Is it a culture thing or the nature of the people in that region?
I don't know, but looks like this has been going on since the Arab colonializm/Islamic expansion and doesn't look like it will change any time soon.
- inawarminister 3y agoeh, algebra and algorithms were invented by people there. Agreed with modern history though; certainly post European colonization something broke. Especially as the colonization hasn't ended yet.
- jfengel 3y agoThe breaking happened before European colonization. There are (as always) a lot of reasons, but most historians point the finger at Genghis Khan and the Mongols. The fall of Baghdad in 1258 is often cited as the end of the Islamic Golden Age. The area was dominated mostly by the Ottomans until the 19th century. Only then did Europe begin to colonize it in earnest. (They'd been focusing on the Americas instead.) So European colonization plays a big role in what's going on now, but it's distinct from the end of that period from the 8th through 13th centuries where Islamic scholarship far outstripped anything going on in Europe. Unfortunately, all of that broke down, and the world was much the poorer for it.