It wasn't a world wide Dark Ages, the term Dark Ages only applies to Europe. Elsewhere in the world things were moving along nicely. Persia, India, China...all were experiencing rapid growth of knowledge during the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance in 14th century. Serfs may have been wallowing in mud in France but Omar Khayyam was developing the first general solution to Cubic equations in 1100. Algebra, btw, is an Arabic word.
Cheers, Judah On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Sisk, Kris <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've heard it said that we still haven't recovered all the engineering > knowledge that was lost in the various fires in the Library of > Alexandria. Also I'm sure we'd have a well established colony on Mars by > now if it weren't for the dark ages. We'd probably have several of them > in fact, and some mining outposts in the asteroid belt to boot. 800 > years is a long time for scientific progress to be slowed to a near > stand still. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:59 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: 5000 year old wooden door found buried in Zurich > > > I wonder what happened? > > It seems that there were amazing architectural and engineering > abilities available from ancient times. > > How did we lose it? > > Is it because of the Dark Ages and the rise of Christianity, book > burning, hoarding of information by the church etc.? > > How did we lose so much knowledge? > > Why didn't something like the plans and methods for making this door > survive down through the ages (I'm sure it wasn't unique) ? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329634 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
