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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (21268)7/30/2012 2:34:06 PM
From: gamesmistress2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
Your "history" has some gaping holes in it. The Romans conquered Greece first, and were heavily influenced by Greek culture. After the fall of Rome, the Byzantine Empire took over, and eventually the Ottoman Turks.

"With the Turkish conquest, many Byzantine Greek scholars, who up until then were largely responsible for preserving Classical Greek knowledge, fled to the West, taking with them a large body of literature and thereby significantly contributing to the Renaissance."

How did the Roman Catholic Church suppress these scholars?

"[Socrates] was tried, convicted, and executed for corrupting the young."

You don't see any contradiction between this and your statement "The ancient Greeks encouraged folks to discuss ideas"?????
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