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To: c.hinton who wrote (239850)8/24/2007 1:49:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I said

I was talking about a period over the last 1000 years, during which the Europeans absorbed the philosophy of Averroes, learned mathematics and how to build windmills from the Arabs, learned Greek Fire from the Byzantines and gunpowder from the Chinese.

and you said

and its odd how you overlook gunpowder ,paper,high quality steel,medicine and mathamatics.


This makes you look like a person who doesn't bother to read before shooting his mouth off. Seriously.