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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What’s weird to me is, the dark ages weren’t dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What’s in a name and all that.

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        8 months ago

        They didn’t skip it, the enlightenment was a continuation of what they came up with. I’m pretty sure they didn’t deny the earth is round and the sun is the center of our galaxy.

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            8 months ago

            Hmmm, the minions probably did think the earth was flat since that’s what the church told them. Definitely, most of the thinkers of that time knew it wasn’t and were told to keep it hush hush or there would be harsh punishment. It’s not a one size fits all kind of thing, and just like everything else, it’s complicated.

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              8 months ago

              That is a myth that has been debunked a long time ago. In fact, the Earth being round was discovered in antiquity and Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference almost accurately in about 240 BC.

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            8 months ago

            Now you’ve got me curious, what do you think they didn’t continue? The art wasn’t the same, is that it? We should be very thankful they saved a lot of knowledge that could have been lost.

      • pretty much everything between ~600 and 1900 and pretty much everywhere from Morrocco to Turkey to Iran.

        Just read up on Moors, Ottomans, Iranians, Mail Empire, Islamic culture, science and arts…

        A lot of it in Palestine got destroyed by the savage European crusaders though.