• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Optics, medicine, algebra, AL-GEBRA, and so much other stuff. There was never a dark age, all the cool people just moved to Bagdad, and it's not like the Islamic world was just sitting around between the renaissance and the 21st century.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      So many :reddit-logo: wail about the burning of the Library of Alexandria and don't care about the much greater damage done by the sacking of Baghdad. :us-foreign-policy: