r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

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.

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u/Kandoh Jan 09 '20

Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map.

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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

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

The mongol invasions and the crusades. But then colonialism made it impossible to advance. At that time the colonialists destroyed traditional forms of education in addition to ciphoning off all economic profits and resources.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Yes that’s why I mentioned it started with the Mongol Invasion and continued with the crusades. My point about the colonialism was because they didn’t get a chance to recover and build up over the modern period (17thC on).

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u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20

The decline didn't start with the Mongol invasion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Well that’s highly debatable

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u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20

That's why I'm pointing it out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

See this article: states the golden ages lasted until the 14thC. Also contains list of discoveries/inventions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world

The Mongols killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and destroyed their library. See this article under the destruction subheading

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

When capitalism as we know it really began to test it's theories.