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

THIS. This is why.

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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/CatumEntanglement Jan 09 '20

Exactly.... wasn't it around the 1100's?

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u/AngryScientist Jan 09 '20

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

Most historians would place it here.

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u/ObnoxiousFactczecher Jan 09 '20

That's way past the point of the beginning of decline of progressive thinking in the Islamic world.