(June 22, 2016 at 8:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No jesus?
No Jesus is not enough. The decisive turn towards scientific revolution and modernity occurred in the western world because of the series of contingent events between the 12th and 17th centuries. It did not flow as any inevitable or natural consequence of any attribute of Rome or Greece.
If Rome didn't fall then, it would most likely fall later. At the very least, it would degenerate into an sclerotic empire that continues to produce small innovations, but makes no move towards real intellectual or economic foundations of modernity, rather like dynastic China.
