Pleb view: 'Christianity held back science during the Middle Ages'

>pleb view: 'Christianity held back science during the Middle Ages'
>Veeky Forums wiki historians: 'uhhhh no XD the Middle Ages had no stagnancy and nothing was the churches fault'
>the truth: pretty much all intellectual thought completely came to a halt during this time period, with Aquanus, Augustine, etc. simply applying Platonic metaphysics further into Christian theology, likewise other forms of science completely dropped off the face of the earth due to persecution

>pleb view: 'the civil war was due to slavery'
>Veeky Forums wiki historian: 'NO it was due to states rights and southern culture IDIOT'
>the truth: it was about the South's rights to own slaves and their culture of slavery

How does it feel to be more wrong than plebs Veeky Forums?

>Aquanus

>there are people who don't distinguish between the early middle ages and the High Middle Ages

Aquinas whatev

>Aquinas
>Platonic

>science
>persecuted

Nice meme.

fuck off retard

Christianity rose to prominence after the crisis of the 3rd century so causally could not have been responsible. Also literacy was preserved by the church.

Science and philosophy were separate things in the pre-industrial world, certainly before the renaissance. Geometry in architecture and such was a minor part of the multitude of crafts that made up "science" and the church did not oppose abstract mathematics. During the time of Charlemagne 3 field crop rotation and the heavy plow were introduced which revolutionized agriculture. Rome fell because the barbarians had adopted shield walls and new cavalry from the steppes, they relied on social systems rather than finance to raise troops which apparently proved more effective, the Germanic assemblies (like the witenagemot) and oaths of loyalty were in stark contrast to the corrupt long dead republican Roman virtues and constant conspiracies among the elite, it is written that people prefered the low taxes of the visigoths. It is a mistake to assume all progress stopped because the economy shrank and there were less writers and philosophers, people had (almost) the same genetics, they were just as intelligent, they just applied their intelligence differently.

The southern elite fought to keep slavery. The southern commoners fought to preserve state rights as they were told. The north fought to preserve the union. That would be a good summary, however I don't believe anyone wanted to fight.

During negotiation both sides often use salami tactics to see how much the other side is really willing to sacrifice, the solution is to draw the line somewhere and refuse to compromise. Also different sides have varying interests, different information and ideas about how best to proceed yet must present a united front.

Fort Sumter was a microcosm of this. The north couldn't abandon Robert Anderson while the south couldn't let him hold Fort Sumter.

>Aquinas
>Platonic (even though it would be neo-platonism at this point)

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Member that time period when the

The Heavy Plough 5th Century AD.
Tidal Mills 7th Century AD.
The Hourglass 9th Century AD.
Blast Furnace 11th Century AD.
Eyeglasses 12th Century.
The Mechanical Clock 13th Century AD

was invented?

I member.

Prior to Christianity the Roman Empire had been relatively tolerent to people of different faiths and people were free to follow different religions.

When the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, Christian emperors persecuted all other faiths and tried to force everyone to be Christian under pain of death.

Literature written by pagans was burnt and destroyed which resulted in many works of literature, mathematics, philosophy, engineering being lost, and destroyed centuries of accumulated learning.

My nubian

This post is completely incorrect of what /his thinks and has obviously only been paying attention to /pol/ bait threads. In other words, OP is a faggot

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The reason intellectual thought "came to a halt" was more due to the economic collapse of the Roman empire and the regions they controlled. For centuries the church was the only source of intellectualism, this changed over time as the Medieval economy flourished after the plague, and then the church became a conservative force.

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>>Veeky Forums wiki historian: 'NO it was due to states rights and southern culture IDIOT'

Doesn't happen, like 90% of Veeky Forums understands it was about slavery, it's just the other 10% causing the same shitstorms every time.

go to bed Dan Brown.

>they relied on social systems rather than finance to raise troops which apparently proved more effective, the Germanic assemblies (like the witenagemot) and oaths of loyalty were in stark contrast to the corrupt long dead republican Roman virtues and constant conspiracies among the elite,

10/10....that never occurred to me.

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