Science editor John J. O'Neill observes a four-inch refractor what he described as a gigantic natural bridge having the span of about 12 miles from pediment to pediment in the region of the Promontoria The article reports on the misinformation article written by John J. O'Neill in the "New York Herald Tribune" which claim that the United States has enough supply of uranium refined and ready for use in the chain reaction state capable of producing at least 70, atomic bombs.
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Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization
Sex Education in Schools. Are You A Librarian? Are You A Publisher? Spain went from being the wealthiest nation on Earth under the Moslems to being the wealthiest nation on Earth under the Christians, then they kicked out the Jews and within a relatively short period of time managed to waste it all and turn into a third world pestilential Hellhole. As they say it's the economy!
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The Spanish persecuted the Jews for a long time, but I don't think they actually expelled them until - just before the Spanish established a wealthy world-wide empire. Although it was islamic, Yemen had a large Jewish population, until the rebirth of Israel, but I don't think Yemen was ever an economic powerhouse. I don't think islamic rule meant economic success with, or without, the presence of Jews; so I would argue with you that France would have been economically successful had Martel failed.
In fact, even if Martel's victory somehow setback France's economic recovery, France and the West are undoubtedly better off because he succeeded. America, better get your heads out of the other end of your alimentary canal. The middle class and the intelligentsia moved on as they were "discovered". The Jewish presence was still important well into the time after Spain took advantage of it's American and Philippine discoveries. Everything in Yemen is controlled by the weather and the dam. At one time, before Mohammad, just about everybody there had been converted to Judaism.
I know I'm over-simplifying it, but I guess my argument with you would be that you seem to be equating economic success as the greatest good "You can look at the Martel thing in several different ways They've had some bright spots - I would hope so, given their year-run - but over all, Churchill said it best: But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Both Rome and Persian were exhausted by their wars, leaving both open to the Arab conquest. And unlike the Germans, the Arabs were NOT open to the adoption of either Roman or Persian culture, or if they were initially, that was all ended by the late 8th Century. The revival was a direct result of the arrival of Islam. One of the most enduring problems of history is the decline of Classical Civilization.
How was it that the civilization of Greece and Rome, which had endured almost a thousand years, a civilization which prized learning, science and reason, gave way to the world of the Medieval; an age which saw, for a while, the almost complete disappearance of the rationalist spirit of Greece and Rome? The traditional view was that after their seizure of Italy in the fifth century, the Barbarian tribes of Germany and Scythia had reduced Europe to an economic and cultural wasteland, initiating a Dark Age, which was to last half a millennium.
After the Reformation, another suspect was added to the list: Christianity, or, more accurately, Catholic Christianity. In this view Christianity was corrupted beyond recognition after the time of Constantine and from the fourth century onwards a power-hungry Church hierarchy, in cahoots with the Imperial authorities, kept the population of Europe in subservience and ignorance, effectively completing the destructive work of the Barbarians.
In this ground-breaking work, historian John J. O'Neill examines a great variety of evidence from many specialties and reaches an astonishing and novel conclusion: Classical Civilization was not destroyed by Barbarians or by Christians.
Holy Warriors: Islam and the Demise of Classical Civilization
It survived intact into the early seventh century. The Vandals and Goths who seized the Western Empire in the fifth century had become completely romanized by the start of the sixth century. Artistic and intellectual life flourished, as did the economy and the cities built earlier under the Empire. Yet sometime in the middle of the seventh century everything changed.
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Cities were abandoned, literacy plummeted, royal authority declined and local strongmen, or "barons", seized control of the provinces. The Middle Ages had begun.