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> Still not an answer.
Yes it is.
> It was not really literal religion thing, when you say god it's quite different from what we understand from god, if you openly show disdain to state traditions and adopt a zealous behaviour you should expect to crucified.
It is a literal religion thing.
> Well it is, there are lots of different thinkers who had not to interpret ancient knowledge according to state religion, there were even godless people.
It's not, even by your own idea of it it's not. Even if it was state tradition, not being allowed to criticise or abstain from state tradition is not freedom of speech now is it?
> They knew it's just it was mostly tied with roman state structure and disappeared when rome have gone.
That is the point, it was a Roman thing that the Romans were doing and that was tied to them and their own structures and ways, it was not a Briton innovation or a Saxon one and clearly it was not something that was passed on to them.
> We're not arguing about who is angel or devil we're arguing about regressing,
They didn't regress. I think part of the issue here is the assumption that Germanic tribes(who ended up controlling pretty much all of western Europe) were in fact Romans and had all the traditions, institutions and technologies of Romans. They simply did not. They never regressed as they were never Roman to begin with. From the perspective of these Germanic tribes they were in fact progressing.
> Alexander the great was macedon, it wasnt known for ancient scripture exactly, even the greeks saw them half barbarians.
It's not like the Campaigns of Alexander the Great were entirely outside of the Greek world. He did own all of Greece and much of his army was Greek and what he did was really quite extraordinary. It's something that people would generally write quite a lot about.
> Mass destruction by ISIS tier cult does not help
Or hinder that much in this case, it just was not there.
> Agreed but again roman heritage went north.
The Romans went north, how much of their heritage was given to the common locals is something else and the people that ended up with those areas in the end were not even the common locals that had been under Roman rule anyway. They were Germans.
> And that wealth has been severely regressed thanks to christianity and their zealot way of thinking.
Well the Eastern Roman empire kept doing fine at that period and it was Christian. Even Italy was still building beautiful stone structures right after the fall of the Empire but they were under a new administration that was again, German.