When one reads about the fall of the Roman Empire, there tends to be two views about how this effected the development of Europe: That a) it positively effected Europe's development, because Rome's security lead to little technological and scientific advancement, or b) that it destroyed Roman cultural learning in the West, which took the Renaissance to resolve.
So I have a simple question: Which do you lean towards, and why?
So I have a simple question: Which do you lean towards, and why?