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To: James C. Bennett

India?


3 posted on 01/13/2013 12:46:17 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Indeed it was India.


9 posted on 01/13/2013 12:53:34 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Yeah, it was the Indians, they needed to record how many scalps they took.
13 posted on 01/13/2013 12:56:33 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
We'd known nothing of the Indian numerals for many centuries if it hadn't been for Arabs moving in and conquering most of the Indus valley and imposing Islam.

There was an upside to some of that stuff!,

The piece starts out with an error ~ imagining that the Dark Ages started in some sort of association with the Fall of Rome, the arrival of barbarians, etc. Actually, there was a climate anomaly that followed what may have been a serious comet strike somewhere in the North Atlantic ~ in 535 AD! Tree rings show something really bad happened that left Europe without summer weather for maybe as long as 7 years ~ just enough to depopulate and economically destroy all of Western and Northern Europe ~ took them back to a level even lower than found in Eastern Europe.

After that everything that went on in Western Europe was a step up!~

21 posted on 01/13/2013 1:07:19 PM PST by muawiyah
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