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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (17 children)

The chariot lasting as high tech for 3800 years has some part to do with the dark ages.....

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The dark ages weren't dark. Humanity didn't just stop for 1000 years, you know?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Western history classes gracefully ignore things like the chinese empires, the golden ages in the arabic world (which oh so happened to be to be during the "dark ages" of Europe and saw science flourish there) and anything that happened on the american continent prior to colonialization (not like we know too much about it given the colonizers' rampages and targeted cultural destruction). Let alone African history, Indian, South-East Asia, Australia…

Same of course with religions. But watching that Martin Luther movie three times was definitely important I guess, cause it "changed the whole (!) world". I fucking hate all of this bullshit.

Sorry for the rant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Dark ages didn't happen is the issue with your point. There were many new technologies developed and progress being made.

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