1. ROME SPLITS IN TWO AND THE WEST FALLS. EUROPE DESCENDS INTO DARK AGES
2. JUSTINIAN, EMPORER OF THE EAST, CLOSES ATHENIAN SCHOOL - SCHOLARS GO TO SYRIA
3. ISLAM COMES TO DOMINATE ARABIA, HENCE ALSO SYRIA
4. ISLAMIC CULTURE TAKES ON WESTERN APPROACH, IMMERSED IN ARISTOTLE AND WESTERN SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY ETC.
5. AVICENNA MARKS FIRST ARISTOTELIAN PEAK IN ISLAMIC CULTURE
6. AL GHAZALI REACTS AGAINST PHILOSOPHERS, STARTS MOVEMENT THAT ABANDONS PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE THROUGH REASON, MOVEMENT INSTALLS LITERALIST THEOCRACY
7. AVERROES MARKS SECOND ARISTOTELIAN PEAK IN ISLAMIC CULTURE, DELIVERS IT TO SPAIN; REACTS AND COUNTERS AL GHAZALI, BUT THE WHEELS ARE ALREADY SET IN MOTION ON AL GHAZALI'S MOVEMENT.
8. ARISTOTLE REINTRODUCED TO EUROPE THROUGH SPAIN FROM AVERROES, ENDS DARK AGES, BRINGS IN NEW AGE OF REASON AND PHILOSOPHIC THOUGHT PEAKING UNDER AQUINAS.
9. EUROPEAN CHURCH AND POLITICS BESIEGE CONSTANTINOPLE FIGURATIVELY, ISLAMIC ARMIES BESIEGE IT LITERALLY. BY THIS TIME, ISLAM IS INCREASINGLY DOMINATED BY FUNDAMENTALIST MOVEMENT STARTED BY AL GHAZALI
10. BYZANTINE SCHOLARS FLEE INVADING ISLAMIC ARMIES AS CONSTANTINOPLE FALLS, SEEK REFUGE IN ITALY
11. RENAISSANCE BEGINS IN ITALY AS SPARKED BY INFLUX OF SCHOLARS.
12. WESTERN WORLD OF TODAY EMERGES OUT OF THE EVENTS OF THE RENNAISSANCE; ISLAMIC WORLD OF TODAY EMERGES OUT OF FUNDAMENTALIST LITERALISM SPARKED BY AL GHAZALI.
9. EUROPEAN CHURCH AND POLITICS BESIEGE CONSTANTINOPLE FIGURATIVELY, ISLAMIC ARMIES BESIEGE IT LITERALLY. BY THIS TIME, ISLAM IS INCREASINGLY DOMINATED BY FUNDAMENTALIST MOVEMENT STARTED BY AL GHAZALIIt was the Turkish army that took Constantinople, just as it conquered Islam. Don't Constantly confuse creed, race, and religion, or mix them together. When we came, it was us. Not Islam, which we conquered too.. And to protect the artwork in the churches from fundamentalists, we painted over them. This is why you can marvel at countless golden mosaic depictions of biblical stories in Istanbul today. These would have been disposed of by fundamentalists back then, misinterpreted as depictions of idols.