Skip to comments.
How Europeans Invented the Modern World
American Thinker ^
| David Deming
Posted on 07/05/2010 8:38:13 AM PDT by ventanax5
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-49 next last
1
posted on
07/05/2010 8:38:15 AM PDT
by
ventanax5
To: ventanax5
2
posted on
07/05/2010 8:44:30 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: ventanax5
No sale on that one. For centuries the Pantheon, built by Romans was the largest unsupported dome in the world.
There isan interesting book I have just finished called "Justinians Flea". It postulates that the great bubonic plagues which killed over 25 million people in Byzantium alone, so loosened Constantinoples grip on its territory that European states developed from the Franks, The Allemani, The Rus etc.
3
posted on
07/05/2010 8:45:04 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: ventanax5
/src on/According to Zero’s NASA is was the Muzzies who created the modern world./src off/
4
posted on
07/05/2010 8:45:17 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: fso301
Obama figures we should all be living the green life in thatched huts. ;-)
5
posted on
07/05/2010 8:54:32 AM PDT
by
Dem Guard
(Throw the trash out on November 2nd!)
To: ventanax5
“What a racist rant!
Europe is the ancestral home of the white devil slave master and nothing more!”
—”the enlightened Left”
6
posted on
07/05/2010 8:59:03 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("Liberals frolic at ersatz enlightenment because conservatives keep the savages from the door.")
To: ventanax5
7
posted on
07/05/2010 9:01:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: C19fan
Speaking of Zero - I think the zero was the greatest invention of all. Arabs lay claim to the zero and decimal numbering system, but evidence supports that it came from India and was popularized by Arabs due to their influence / power at the time. It's easy to believe Indians are responsible for this innovation since the best mathematicians consistently come from India, not the Arab world.
Just think how hard it would be to do calculus using Roman numerals.
8
posted on
07/05/2010 9:03:42 AM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
To: ventanax5
Absent from this article is the fact that for the most part it was Christian Europe which developed universities, orphanages to care for babies who would otherwise be killed, hospitals, hospices, guilds which protected widows and other charitable organizations. It was monks who preserved the writings of the Greeks like Aristotle, sitting at desks copying them. It was Christian Europe who furthered philosophy, mathematics, developed a realistic form of art and music which like Mozart trains the brain. It was in Christian Europe where the concepts of liberty, unalianable rights and those that inform the founding of our government.
We forget that at our peril. We toss it away when rather than just confer respect on those who hold different ideas from their heritage, we act as though those ideas are equally promoting of human well being as were Christian Europe.
Progressives are really tolerant of destruction of our most precious heritage. We need to re-learn our history and pass it on.
9
posted on
07/05/2010 9:05:34 AM PDT
by
amihow
To: uncommonsense
I think the zero was the greatest invention of all. Arabs lay claim to the zero and decimal numbering system, And at the time, the Arabs were NOT Muslim, contrary to popular belief.
10
posted on
07/05/2010 9:10:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Jimmy Valentine
No sale on that one. For centuries the Pantheon, built by Romans was the largest unsupported dome in the world. While it's undoubtedly an impressive feat of engineering and construction, how did the Pantheon's unsupported dome improve people's lives in any way similar to the way that the agricultural and industrial advancements in Europe did?
11
posted on
07/05/2010 9:13:11 AM PDT
by
Bob
To: dfwgator
Sigh...
“Arabic” numerals were invented by the hindus, including the zero.
http://www.archimedes-lab.org/numeral.html
It’s telling when the only known arab achievement is one they have stolen from their hindu victims of the world’s greatest genocide.
To: ventanax5
The Romans were also great engineers and builders. They invented concrete, perfected the arch, and constructed roads and bridges that remain in use today. Apart from the concrete, arches, roads and bridges, what have the Romans ever done for us?
13
posted on
07/05/2010 9:22:46 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ventanax5
They invented concreteAmazing they could do that with no real knowledge of chemistry.
To: amihow
a-MEN. Say it loud and often!
15
posted on
07/05/2010 9:30:54 AM PDT
by
13Sisters76
("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
To: Yardstick
They invented concrete
Amazing they could do that with no real knowledge of chemistry.Same way with gunpowder. You had to mix sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal in just the right amounts. Wherever did THAT idea come from? I suspect some alchemist was mixing stuff and of a sudden BOOM! "Hey, what great fireworks it would make!" says he.
16
posted on
07/05/2010 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: dfwgator
The roads? That goes without saying.
17
posted on
07/05/2010 10:32:32 AM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(Iron Man 2-a great conservative movie.)
To: ventanax5
They invented concrete Which their Italian descendants are well-known for into the present day....
18
posted on
07/05/2010 10:38:19 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(And its *many* uses...)
To: dfwgator
>>>what have the Romans ever done for us?
The Romans POPULARIZED A SYSTEMATIC TAXATION system, developed in the East (Pergamum in Western half of Turkey).
Tom Holland in “Rubicon” says that Rome came to find it a “honey pot” as they sold off tax collection franchises throughout the East rather than rely on the established local tax bureaucracies.
This innovation created the first “military-fiscal complex.” It also led to the Romans getting kicked out of Turkey at that time by Mithridates executing all Romans and pouring molten gold down the throat of the Roman commissioner, Manius Aquillius.
To: ventanax5
Thus the world was transformed, not by philosophers, scientists, or politicians, but by engineers, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs It can be argued that the philosophers and politicians (and theologians) set the stage so that the engineers, craftsmen and entrepreneurs could thrive.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-49 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson