Could Africans have invented the enlightenment?

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Exactly

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History is not some Sid Meier game where civilizations progress along a linear tech tree, so no.

That's an interesting point. It's not merely enough for a technology to be "invented" or imported. You must also have a critical mass of people who can easily figure out the uses and benefits of said technology and institutions where training and development could occur.

When the library of Baghdad was sacked, not only was book knowledge destroyed but the network, of intellectuals, researchers, artisans, and tinkers, was wiped out.

The entire ME is still paying for that loss.

>When the library of Baghdad was sacked, not only was book knowledge destroyed but the network, of intellectuals, researchers, artisans, and tinkers, was wiped out.

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This

>You must also have a critical mass of people
>the library of Baghdad was sacked
there are still some unanswered questions, Rome and China were pretty big

>Could Africans have invented
no

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom

It's not a fantastic leap to assume that they held copies of writing regarding Metallurgy, Chemistry (called Alchemy), Construction, botanical surveys, fauna surveys, etc.

Think about how Hero of Alexandria had a novelty steam engine but no institutions or methodologies to examine and preserve knowledge of his inventions and find pragmatic uses.

The industrialists of England did have access to such networks and a history of inventing progressively more mechanical prostheses for human faculties.

Baghdad would've probably been a gravitational vacuum for people with brains and technical knowledge. Assuming that the curse of decline and empire didn't destroy them eventually anyways.

It's hard to say how the world would be. If they either sparked an industrial revolution or imported wholesale the fantastic inventions coming from Europeans and then leveraged those to gain superior control over their territory and spheres of influence.

It might have been a balancing power against the threat of Russia.

If it happened on Africa or anywhete it would be called "the enlightenment".

In 1258 Baghdad was a city of faded glory. This was not a place of profound intellectual endeavour. The Caliphate had fractured in the late 9th century, and by the end of the 10th century was under the constant puppetry of other powers- first the Shi’a Buyid dynasty, and later the Seljuk Turks. It re-asserted some degree of political independence once the Seljuks began to collapse in the 12th century, but this was really limited to Mesopotamia. The intellectual centres of Islam had, to a large degree, moved to where political power was strongest- Cairo, the Khorasan, and so on. Baghdad was an important city, and it did still hold a magnificent library, but it wasn’t the single pre-eminent city of Islam any more, particularly when compared to the rising star of Cairo (which would become the largest city west of China at the height of Mamluk prosperity).

There were many other libraries in the Middle East which would have held copies of similar writings as Baghdad. If anything, intellectual endeavour was enhanced by Mongol rule; the cultural exchange between China and Iran significantly increased mutual knowledge of the sciences and allowed a great deal of artistic, agricultural, astronomical &c development through the dissemination of different styles.

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