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Sativa_Rose posted...

There was a time when the Middle East was at the forefront of human civilization, multiple eras actually. Some of the first civilizations, like the Babylonians, were based in Mesopotamia. Then in the the earlier parts of the Middle Ages I think that the Islamic world was at the forefront of science, but that ended up going away. I'm not really sure what the main cause for that was, I know the Mongols destroyed a lot of stuff, but I don't know that much history from the Middle Ages.

They were at the forefront in science and math for a while mostly because they didnt have any problems in utilizing the pagan Greek texts that were much more underground in Europe. When the Renaissance came along that all changed pretty immediately. Not surprisingly the Ottoman Empire simultaneously started an immediate decline at the same time. Up until then the Ottomans had been very close to breaking thru Vienna.

Cant explain why the Middle East never got back into it. They had already stopped innovating by the European Renaissance era. But while Europe overall started getting much less religious (especially by the 1700s), you always had firm believers in the Middle East.
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