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whomthegodswoulddestroy:ultrafacts:aussietory:third-way-is-best-way:tuxedoandex:kvotheunkvothe:ultrafacts:Source For more facts follow UltrafactsEVERY TIME SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA I GET SO ANGRY.but whyBecause it got burned. All of that knowledge, lost forever.The library was destroyed over 1000’s of years ago. The library consisted of thousands of scrolls and books about mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, blueprints, medicine, plays, & important scriptures. Thinkers from all over the Mediterranean used to come to Alexandria to study.Most of the major work of civilization up until that point was lost. If the library still survived till this day, society may have been more advanced and we would sure know more about the ancient world.Holdup. Now I’m a fan of this post and all, but I take issue with that chart. For one thing, how the unruly fuck are you measuring “Scientific Advance?” What is it, quantitatively, that you’re labeling that axis with? Is it some arbitrary number of things considered “advancements?” Is it the amount of general knowledge about the world known by an average person? What?Second of all, the graph incorrectly displays a supposed chronology of advancement. Like, “Oh okay the Egyptians did some advancement up until 500 BC, and then it was time for the Greeks to take over and apparently they took up right where the Egyptians left off up until 1 CE and then it was time for the Romans to take over the advancing for everyone!” Like, apparently there’s no such thing as individual simultaneous advancements, no they just took 500-year turns advancing some generic notion of “Science.” Not only is this a ludicrous view of scientific history, it’s also wildly inaccurate.Third of all, the “Dark Ages,” as they’re colloquially referred to as, are not the “Christian” Dark Ages. If anything, they’re the European Dark Ages. There’s a certain unwarranted bias in calling them that, especially since much of Rome was already Christian during the period shown on the graph. Remember that Constantine guy in ~300 AD? Yeah, that’s a thing. Calling it the “Christian Dark Ages” is revisionist history and shows a bias toward the idea that all traditional pagan religions and their native cultures are superior to Christianity and had only positive influences on the world and humanity’s scientific development whereas Christianity did nothing but set the world back a thousand years. This is false.Third of all, the Dark Ages are not called such because there was an intentional, suppressive drive to quash knowledge and scientific discovery. There was a noticeable economic and scientific deterioration that occurred during that point, but it had far more to do with the decline of the Roman Empire and the resulting fallout [and various invasions] than it did any purposeful suppression of discoveries. Remember, folks, correlation does not equal causation. In fact, the Dark Ages were called thus mostly in the 19th century by fancy-pants European Historians in a deliberate effort to make the Renaissance look better by comparison. It was more about self-fellatio on the parts of more modern Europeans and how supposedly great the Renaissance was, than it was about the actual advancements within the “Dark Ages.”IN ADDITION, use of the term “Dark Ages” in academia is frowned upon and considered incorrect. For the past century it’s been used to denote a period in which little actual record-keeping was kept, ergo we know very little about the period. The histories of the period are metaphorically “dark” as opposed to “well-known” or “illuminated” rather than the general culture of the period being dark. These days we know far more about the Medieval Period [which is, note, why we call it that rather than the “Dark Ages” still] and ergo the term has completely fallen out of academic use.There is SO MUCH THE FUCK WRONG with that graph.here u go goatprince they don’t really talk about scientific advancement in other regions but at least it’s better -- source link

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