[Defiant]

You are right, and even the math and science they get credited for is mostly just Greek learning which they copied. They should get credit only for maintaining the magnificent works of the ancients, but very little was invented by them.

[Antoninus]

You are right, and even the math and science they get credited for is mostly just Greek learning which they copied. They should get credit only for maintaining the magnificent works of the ancients, but very little was invented by them.

They didn't always preserve, either. They pretty much destroyed all representational art they found in the conquered provinces of the East. And their record of preserving the writings of the ancient past is dismal compared to the West.