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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (43619)11/30/2013 9:56:21 PM
From: 2MAR$  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
The flight of Greek intellectuals to Italy before & during the Fall of Constantinople to Mehmed's Ottomans was already covered here over a month ago if you were paying attention dumdum. As were other significant battles that changed history, including the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols 200yrs before , a blow to science & learning from which Islam never really recovered. That was because the orthodoxy and puritanical right wing (idiots like yourself) took rigid control & suffocated the institutions of discovery & science/philosophy that were the foundation of over four hundred years of the Golden Age of Islam.

The Abbasids & Umayyads of Baghdad and Spain between 750-1200 led states whose foundations were set on Prophet Mohammad's injunction that believed "Seek learning though it be in China." And strict implementation of Prophet's own words: "The ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr." It is a recognized fact that the scientific and philosophical scholarship of the Greeks and Persians had been lost to the West but was introduced to European intellectual life via the Islamic world in Baghdad and Spain.

True & proper study of history isn't about playing your dimwit blame game & who was superior or closer to to some imaginary "gods", its about the transmission & preservation of ideas, inventions, discoveries and human cultural refinements, an evolution that links all men together in one giant sweep of time. Thats why we have the sciences of History, Archaeology & Cultural Anthropology, to study human evolution & the cultural evolution and understanding culture history.

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