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To: Brumar89 who wrote (385452)	5/21/2008 7:35:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576705

The Greek civilization peaked and declined well before the Islamic empire. On the contrary, while the western Roman empire declined and fell, the eastern Greek dominated Byzantine empire continued on. It didn't suffer a decline at all. It lost on the battlefield and declined after the Islamic conquest. That was the remnants of the Roman Empire; not the Greek: "Constantine moved the seat of the Empire, and introduced important changes into its civil and religious constitution.[10] In 330, he founded Constantinople as a second Rome on the site of Byzantium, which was well-positioned astride the trade routes between East and West; it was a superb base from which to guard the Danube river, and was reasonably close to the Eastern frontiers." en.wikipedia.org As for China and India, parts of those countries were a part of the Islamic empire at its peak. Thats not true either. China proper (as opposed to central Asian Sinkiang) in particular never became part of an Islamic empire. Major parts of India did in time, but that isn't what spurred Indian civilization. Indeed, Islamicization caused a decline in Indian civilization.