[Jack Hydrazine]

India?

[mylife]

Indeed it was India.

[Navy Patriot]

Yeah, it was the Indians, they needed to record how many scalps they took.

[muawiyah]

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!~