Smidlee on 08 March 2008
| whatever said:
It not even that scientific progress was slowed or stopped during medieval times. Its that we went backwards hundreds of years. The Greeks and Romans were far more advanced civilizations than anything up until the Renaissance. We lost alot of knowledge during this time period. Religion played a central role in this process. |
This is true with a lot of great civilizations in the past. If a serious nuclear war wiped out America some of the knowledge would be more useful to the common person than others. For example most individuals doesn't have the ability to make a refrigerator on their own so they would have to go back to using an ice box. Without the printing press when a civilization falled then so did some of it's knowledge.
