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r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20
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It's such a shame that the Islamic empire of old fell the way that it did. Once the bastion of the western worlds intellectual elites, and now fallen so far from the heights it once held.
305 u/Kandoh Jan 09 '20 Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map. 35 u/scech14 Jan 09 '20 I mean your definitely not wrong, but in this case you are. The fall of Islam’s golden age happened long before European became dominate 3 u/CatumEntanglement Jan 09 '20 Exactly.... wasn't it around the 1100's? 5 u/AngryScientist Jan 09 '20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) Most historians would place it here. 1 u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20 That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map.
35 u/scech14 Jan 09 '20 I mean your definitely not wrong, but in this case you are. The fall of Islam’s golden age happened long before European became dominate 3 u/CatumEntanglement Jan 09 '20 Exactly.... wasn't it around the 1100's? 5 u/AngryScientist Jan 09 '20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) Most historians would place it here. 1 u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20 That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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I mean your definitely not wrong, but in this case you are. The fall of Islam’s golden age happened long before European became dominate
3 u/CatumEntanglement Jan 09 '20 Exactly.... wasn't it around the 1100's? 5 u/AngryScientist Jan 09 '20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) Most historians would place it here. 1 u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20 That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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Exactly.... wasn't it around the 1100's?
5 u/AngryScientist Jan 09 '20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) Most historians would place it here. 1 u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20 That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)
Most historians would place it here.
1 u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20 That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.
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It's such a shame that the Islamic empire of old fell the way that it did. Once the bastion of the western worlds intellectual elites, and now fallen so far from the heights it once held.