To: guitarplayer1953
It is truly a shame that a civilization that once contributed to mathematics and other academia... The Arabs only conquered the advanced civilizations like the Assyrians. The Arabs themselves contributed little to science and the conquered areas soon turned away from the pursuit of knowledge leaving what you find today.
36 posted on
01/02/2009 3:34:48 AM PST by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
re: areas soon turned away from the pursuit of knowledge leaving what you find today
Sounds like public education in today’s America.
40 posted on
01/02/2009 4:49:36 AM PST by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: Straight Vermonter
The Arabs only conquered the advanced civilizations like the Assyrians. The Arabs themselves contributed little to science and the conquered areas soon turned away from the pursuit of knowledge leaving what you find today.
Very good point. What happened to the civilisations that got this virus of Izzlamm? Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Byzantium, Aram (Syria), Phoenicia, Berbers (remember +Augustine was from north Africa), etc.
119 posted on
01/06/2009 4:33:00 AM PST by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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