The knowledge was saved (but rarely taken forward) in the medieval monasteries and libraries that managed to isolate themselves. We will see something similar: knowledge, expertise, learning & scientific study percolating to other nations or held by those universities willing to resist Trumpism

Is this graph just vibes? Like where does this data come from, what suggests we could have gotten to iPhones a thousand years earlier, especially bc plenty of places were still practicing science?

It's so completely head-up-ass that it's long been a meme/inside joke on the badhistory subreddit www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...

The near east is missing, but point made.

Including the Near East (accurately) would have disproven that point. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...