I often see science without the Black Death happening being discussed, but how about this plague being butterflied? I'm not an expert on the exact impacts on it, but surely it impeded scientific efforts of the day?
Why should it? It didn't for Black Death, and I'm not sure why it would have there as well.I'm not an expert on the exact impacts on it, but surely it impeded scientific efforts of the day?
A Byzantine Empire doing well might help advancement though.
It's not even a given : the classical Roman Empire, in spite of its overall stability and prosperity, didn't harboured that of a scientific and technical advancement contrary to the hellenistic period.A Byzantine Empire doing well might help advancement though.
Anything that was develloped trough the medieval Arabo-Islamic civilization eventually comes down to the Persian and Byzantine transmission and own development. Calling Constantinople a scientific desert is inane.I think the Byzantine empire was an intellectual dead end.
This affirmation needs some actual exemples to not be considered as an old tired cliché, tough.The authority of the Emperor or Church to shut lines off inquiry was too great
What.Same was true of China
Ah. I guess it's going to be part of @123456789blaaa's threads on Ottoman Empire now.the Ottoman empire
Without transmission and developpment of the hellenistic corpus by Byzantines and Arabo-Muslims, you wouldn't have the whole set of medieval Renaissances. There's no going around it.Europe
I think the Byzantine empire was an intellectual dead end.