[yankeedame]

It's strange....we of the West also went through the 14th century, yet we progressed while they remained stagnant.

By the 14th c. western/Christian civilization had already hit the ground running. Some of better and lesser know products of our 14th. century:

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Founding of the universities of Rome, Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, and Cologne, to name a few.
• The first paper mill to open in Europe.
• The Vulgate Bible translated in to English.
• The first blast furnace (Sweden)
• The compass came into general use and became much more sophisticated.
• The invention of the wheel barrow
• The use, research on, and development of the magnet and magnetism.
• The horizontal loom.
• Cakes of hard soap.
• Reading glasses.

[Cronos]

That 14th century thing is nonsense -- slammie apologists say "oh, look at what Christianity was like after it had survived 14 centuries..." forgetting what all of the world was like in the 14th century -- in fact, the slammie world was more advanced (because they had conquered the Greek, Persian and Indian advanced civilisations)

By that standard the Jews had their 14th century somewhere around the time of Christ, so are they millenia ahead of us technologically? Ditto for the Buddhists while Hinduism is way, way older.