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I've been thinking lately. The Dark Ages or Medieval Times lasted several hundred years. During this period, the church suppressed the progress of science, and many scientists were even burned at the stake. I can think of no real technological progress during this time. There may have been some outstanding inventions such as the printing press, but I can't think of anything really changing in Europe during this period in history. This was also the time of the Islamic Golden Age and the Chinese Empire, when the Arabs and Chinese were making huge strides in science.

European science was not really renewed until the Rennaisance. But WI if the Church wasn't so powerful? WI the Church was also not powerful enough to force the Crusades, and as a result, there was cooperation that built on each others' ideas and exchanged technologies? WI European scientists were freely allowed to invent and theorize? Where would we be today? How far do you think we would be today? All the advances that took place during the Renaissance would probably have occurred sooner, and been built on, especially if there had been Europe-Asia exchanges of knowledge instead of religious wars. Church rule in Medieval times probably set us back by hundreds of years. Our technology might have been in use 200 or more years ago. Where we would be today I can only guess.
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