Nonsense, it has nothing to do with one god or two dozen gods, but human beings learning to live more civilized lives within larger context of urban populated centers & expanding regional territorial, trade & resources control. Its a process of evolution which you are pointing to when you call it "god'. If you wish to talk holy spirit, then you are in the realm of metaphysical philosophy which the Greeks founded firmly, start another meditaion & prayer thread if you like ( and hope you put the source of the logos Athena ,the virgin, in the header)
Just look what happens in the Renaissance when that classical secular learning flees back over to Eurpope. It is right then that Islam begins to go on the decline, the Europeans go full tilt in exploration, not just in the humanities but literally in navigating around the world & circumvent the still powerful Ottoman control of the spice routes from India. God has nothing to do with these great changes. If you recall this is what led the first European explorers to venture forth, Asia in particular & the Silk Road were all blocked off due to expansion of the Ottoman Turk empire in 1453.
The Spanish and the Portuguese needed to find new trade routes to Asia that bypassed the Ottomans and the ocean routes from the west were the only ones available. Middle East and Ottoman Seljuk middleman had total control on the trade with the Indian sub continent, the Europeans realised that they were paying exorbitant prices, they wished to have direct contact with India since they were good sea-farers they also had ocean going Vessels. Turks and Muslims were more limited to shallow Mediterranean faring and had not the same abilities for deep sea ocean faring.
It was from the times of the Roman Empire that the trade with India flourished and it continued to grow, the European were totally addicted to spices, cottons, silks, and other exotic stuffs from India. The demand for exotic goods and jewels was extremely high. Had it not been not for the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans may be Spaniards would not have required or needed this western sea opening to discover India from the west.' |
