As for not speaking Chinese or Indian, perhaps you have not looked at
demographics lately, but most the world does speak Chinese or Indian.
Bill Roh
Tim Rhodes wrote:
> Sodom wrote:
>
> >This record is awesome, however, even you must admit that this hardly does
> >justice to the events of a single day, much less a 1000 years. This does
> covr
> >many events that did happen, but does not deal with causes, or
> >complications.
>
> I attempted to highlight some basic causes often neglected in the standard
> history text: Famine, population pressures, disease, and medical and
> agricultural advancements.
>
> >In
> >fact if I didnt know better,I would say that you deleted all mention of the
> >inquisitions, the causes of wars, the crusades - in fact, by the neglect of
> >mentioning these vitally important issues, how many others are excluded?
>
> You already know the history of wars, the inquistion, and the crusades. In
> fact most of our traditional history is simply a chronicle of battles,
> primarily because those were the only topics written about by the early
> historians. If I had chosen it include that material, not only would it
> prove redundant to your existing knowledge, but the list would be 200K long
> rather than 20K, and I'm just not that good a typist.
>
> My point was to refute your and Nate's erronious assertions that it was
> religion (Christianity in particular) which slowed progress. An assertion
> which neglects to recognize that changes in food production and distribution
> made possible widespread and devistating bouts of famine and disease, two of
> the largest impediments to the progress of civilization known to man. A
> starving man does not devote time and resources to science, in any age.
>
> BTW, boyz, if Christianity during the Dark Ages was the sole force which
> held back progress and set back the West's quest for knowledge, why aren't
> we simply writing this in Hindi or Chinese right now?
>
> Your strawman is very old and worn, maybe you should try to find a new one.
>
> -Prof. Tim