Quote: (01-16-2019 12:21 PM)Pride male Wrote:
Is it true that muslims were behind the European renaissance? Historians like to claim that muslims stored classical knowledge whilst Europe was in the dark ages.
No.
The Renaissance started in Italy which coincidentally was the back yard of the Roman empire.
There were people who were standing around looking at rotting infrastructure (aqueducts, the coliseum, ruined palaces, running water which just kept running), latin texts stored in churches, and thought to themselves, "Holy crap! What was here that was so great?"
The knowledge was properly stored by the church and kept by people who were collectors.
There just was a mass collection of people who started to really look at it.
Muslims absolutely had nothing to do with it. The only thing we can thank them for was moving the wealth in both knowledge and material from Constantinople after the Muslim savages surrounded the city and pillaged it.