• bob_lemon@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Even within Europe, there was significant scientific progress during said dark ages. It’s extremely obvious by just looking at a 9th century building to those from the 14th century (especially churches). The latter require profund knowledge of mathematics/civil engineering. We went from tiny windows in 2m thick brick walls to vast, airy Gothic cathedrals (although those did take a couple of centuries to actually finish).

    Although to be fair, that knowledge did largely come to Europe from the scholars of the Arabic world.