[SatinDoll]

I want to encourage people to go to the following website:

http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/

The Assyrian Christians of Mesopotamia were the earliest Christians, converted by St. Peter circa 40AD. These were the people who developed astronomy, mathematics and engineering in the Middle East. It was their knowledge of the ancients and tecnology that the Arabs seized and claimed as their own.

Let me clarify this for everyone: the desert Bedouin tribes of the Arabian penninsula did not have a history of sophisticated architecture, mathematics, or science. The Bedouins were a pastoral people with a rich cultural literary treasure of their own, but they were not tecnologically sophisticates as were the Assyrians and Persians whose highly organized and bureaucratic civilizations were destroyed when over run by Arab Muslims.

This is not to slam or belittle Arabs or their culture. It is only that the truth is important.

[mick]

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[cripplecreek]

Let me clarify this for everyone: the desert Bedouin tribes of the Arabian peninsula did not have a history of sophisticated architecture, mathematics, or science. The Bedouins were a pastoral people with a rich cultural literary treasure of their own, but they were not technologically sophisticates as were the Assyrians and Persians whose highly organized and bureaucratic civilizations were destroyed when over run by Arab Muslims.

There would have been little reason for bedouins to pursue the sciences. They were nomadic and would have had little time to waste on sciences that would have had no purpose in their lives. I suspect they had a decent working knowledge of the stars but that was useful to them.

My personal feeling is that most of the tribes of north America were in a similar position and lived pretty primitive lives as a result. The more technologically advanced tribes were the ones who lived more sedentary lives with some farming.