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To: DMaA who wrote (365889)5/24/2010 4:37:26 PM
From: Zakrosian  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793858
 
Do you include Byzantium as part of Europe?

Good question - I'd probably consider Byzantium to be more Asian than European, but it would have been more accurate to say Western Europe.

And it's been a few decades since I studied Islamic History, but I'm pretty sure they didn't start going downhill until a couple centuries after the 8th. But I do think their contributions to civilized culture peaked well more than half a millennium ago.



To: DMaA who wrote (365889)5/24/2010 7:18:18 PM
From: LindyBill8 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793858
 
Byzantium

We bad-mouth that empire today. But it lasted longer than any other in the history of mankind. The architecture we attribute to Islam came out of Byzantium.

In fact the whole Islamic civilization was really a product of the cultures they subjugated. They spent most of their time destroying. The burning of the Library at Alexandria is a prime example of their capacity for destruction.


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