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[vlad321]

sapphi_snake said:

vlad321 said:

Read my edit, also read the following:

Har, Michael H. History of Libraries in the Western World, Scarecrow Press Incorporate, 1999,

and

Norwich, John Julius, A Short History of Byzantium, 1997,

Both understand that the Renaissance flourished in Italy because greek scholars and texts left the Byzantine Empire and went to Italy, a bunch to Florence if I remember correctly (which some consider the birth of the Renaissance). Moors had nothing to do with it. I am also very well aware of the arabic numbers and the roman numerals.

It should be noted that there are actually 2 Reneissances. The Reneissance of the 12th century and the Reneissance that started in the 14h Century. The Moors contributed greatly to the 12th century one. Their empire was almost gone by the second Reneissance. They did have contribute to the preserving of Greek knowledge though, as they stole many texts from the Byzantines when they invaded their territories, and even expanded on that knowledge.

I am well aware of that, howeer it all still comes down to the fact that the Byzantine Empire preserved the greek knowledge in the first place. The arabic people got their greek knowledge from Byzantium, and I'm happy we agree with that, which they expanded upon. That just further shows my point that the reason culture and knowledge was not completely eliminated during the dark ages was solely because of the Byzantines.

As it stands, the entire West owes its culture, and dominance, solely because of the Byzantines. If the Byzantine EMpire had also fallen like the western part of Rome, then the world would have really been up the shit creek without a paddle.

@homer

It was some guy at the end of the 12th or early 13th century that brough over some book.