XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.history.what-if, alt.history.what-if   
   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:12:24 -0600, Ned Latham wrote:   
      
   > PhantomView wrote:   
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   >>                                             Pouring classical,   
   >> arabic and far eastern philosophy, science and tech into that   
   >> situation allowed for an energetic reaction the likes of which had   
   >> not been seen before.   
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   > Almost all of that was European anyway: the knowledge and science of   
   > the Ancient Greeks, transmitted to Rome, then to Persia when Justinian   
   > forbade teaching by pagans, then to Islam when the Arabs conquered   
   > Persia. There was as well a little from China and India.   
   >   
   > Islam is in fact responsible for *nothing* good. Even their   
   > architecture was derived from that of Ancient Rome. And India.   
      
      
   Although I think that Islam is overrated for politically correct reasons, I   
   think this goes too far. Islam did some of the medicine, discussions of   
   physics, mathematics, etc.   
      
      
      
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   >> I am at a bit of a loss to explain why Rome missed the boat.   
   >   
   > Christianity stultified it.   
      
   I am not sure, later era of the Roman Empire was technologically advancing   
   faster.   
      
      
      
      
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