RE: What if religion never had a "breakthrough"?
December 4, 2012 at 9:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2012 at 9:14 pm by jonb.)
(December 4, 2012 at 12:04 am)Polaris Wrote: A. The European Dark Ages (476-800 CE) were actually at a time when the Church was at its weakest. They ended when the Church gained dominance in 800 CE when key rulers in Western Europe converted. Of the three major Dark Ages, only the Egyptian was due to religion.
The lack of scientific advancement, especially in the beginning, had more to do with a the collapse of civilization and a decent into anarchy than it had to do with religion. There was ultimately no setback because the Moslems had been at the forefront of advancement in those fields.
Pratt of the first order. Proving a bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Modern historians no longer use the term European dark ages as I have told you before, but you haven't bothered to cross check your information, because it seems that may interfere with your agenda, why does that not surprise me, could it be something to do with your stupid adherence to a philosophy that postulates some sort of sky daddy?
Firstly for there to be a dark age it, it would have to be 'darker' than the periods on either side of it.
So rather than me writing a wall of text lets start with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire, more fits the idea of a dark age than anything that replaced it. It was a period of centralist power that stifled development in the arts, philosophy, technology and the sciences.
The Romans had no means of passing on knowledge, remember under their control the Greek academies fell into ruin.
So lets start with technology. the Romans had no structure to reward invention, and it is not surprising nothing was invented in the areas under Roman control while Rome had control of that area, With the exception of Egypt which had the loosest system of governance.
You will find wiki sites saying Roman inventions, but they are referring to inventions of the Mediterranean area. I bet you cannot find two* things invented that work that were invented by Romans, in an area under Roman control, everything the Romans had they copied from others. and during the period of the empire they gradually lost the ability to make those things well.
*I only say two because there is one thing which I cannot prove was not invented by the Romans, it is just probable that it was not.
