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Alright after several problems, I can connect nicely.
> Everybody, I can't even think of an individual.
(who?) still stands here.
> Maths was still studied in this era although much of what they studied from was Arabic
correct and arabs embraced the knowledge of ancient greek.
> Engineering is a funny old thing, there was not so much history of it in Europe to begin with
roman and greek engineering was successfull.
> Even Geography, much of it is tied to location and trade
yeah it's one of the keys in here because in roman era medditerranean was fully known but after that it's forgotten to some extend again this one is so blatant it's very hard to ignore. thanks to venice mediterranean maps fleshed out again and so on.
> Religion was only tolerated so long as it didn't interfere with the empire
If you're not cult of zealots why wouldnt it? Old religions were already integrated parts of old traditions, pagans did not kill each other in the name of their super righteous cult. This is mostly christian invention.
> There was no Free thinking in Rome
there was, if you give example how certain thinker is opressed it is still the case todays europe if you end up in wrong side of politics.
> Technology and idea wise it kind of is at least in general it is.
It is not, see how britain forgot how to make buildings from stone. So no it's not linear, it can be linear if state consistency is protected.
> Because they are all built on top of each other
Not an excuse at all, before dark ages greco roman had their things going despite their own problems, it was nowhere near bad dark ages, they were progressing, ever innovative and creative.
> monks never stopped copying and learning about it.
I can burn a library, save a few books declare myself a hero.
> If that was so important why are they writing so little?
except they did not?
> , there were still scholars reading it.
Who was reading pre socrates thinkers in dark ages like around between 500-900's ?
> Okay what did Rome invent? And how was it based on Roman inventiveness?
You know I can post a list what romans invent and innovated but I dont want to turn this into a link war at all.
> mention that you also say 'why would you take entire antiquity?'
because we are talking about western antiquity as dark ages did not happen in the east, I mean it is happened later but I digress.
One does not need to be genius to to see greco-romans surpassed others when it comes to innovation, chasing the knowledge, creating free thinkers so yes they are quite different from ancient babylon and I'll not classify them as the same just because both have the same title, the antique.