LOL, this thread is a hoot. One poster who responds in screenshots from Lord of the Rings (as if that's some sort of an argument) and another who complains the administration is 'evil' when the facts the government provides don't prove your point. I see it now...factual statements of history are all part of a conspiracy
Let me ask seriously. How would it affect your world view to accept that perhaps other cultures offered inventions, or at the very least maintained scientific thought and processes, while the West was going through dark times. Is your basis of belief on all things so weak that it will come crashing down if you accept factual history?
"How would it affect your world view to accept that perhaps other cultures offered inventions, or at the very least maintained scientific thought and processes, while the West was going through dark times."
Not in the least. My ancestors were Kaisaroi in the Despotate of Morea and one died on the walls of Constantiople next to Constantine XI on May 29, 1453. Others were slaughtered or hauled off to slavery when the Turks burst into Agia Sophia during the final Divine Liturgy there. That the West did or did not fall into barbariam during the Dark Ages means little or nothing to me. It does mean something to me, however, when revisionists with a political agenda deny the history of my people.