What is the basis of claims like European civilisation regressed a thousand years when Rome fell and wed be travelling in starships if Rom...

What is the basis of claims like “European civilisation regressed a thousand years when Rome fell” and “we’d be travelling in starships if Rome didn’t fall”, “all knowledge was lost in the Dark Ages” etc, when Rome literally existed during all of the Dark Ages and well into the Renaissance? No knowledge or technology was lost in the Eastern Roman Empire. Life went on literally unchanged. People went to elaborate baths, watched plays, made sculpture. The Dark Ages was a local, tiny West European phenomenon. Why do people just ignore Byzantium?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    That’s true but what the frick does it have to do with Byzantium

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      why should i accomodate truths to your deluded expectations?

      youre the one saying rome continued to exist (as if the name is all that matters)... and then you even threw in the byzantium in there just because

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What do you mean? All I claim is that the civilisation and knowledge of Ancient Rome didn’t disappear in the Dark Ages, it survived in the Eastern Roman Empire. What is delusional about that?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The civilization was changed significantly into Byzantium which, while continuing some Roman traditions was Greek in culture, Greek in ethnicity, Greek in language, Greek in sensibility, and Greek in territory.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Rome literally existed during all of the Dark Ages and well into the Renaissance
    cringe
    opinion forever discarded

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Elaborate

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's usually anti-Christian seethers that come up with this sort of moronic nonsense.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People simply don't realise that a medieval army could beat Rome. Late Rome was chronically incompetent and earlier Rome didn't have things like stirrups or cavalry tactics that would destroy Roman infantry when combined with better quality materials and advances in fortification engineering.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The Dark Ages was a local, tiny West European phenomenon. Why do people just ignore Byzantium?
    Because Western Europe eventually surpassed the East and became the most influential part of the world for centuries

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Eastern Roman Empire crashed and burned in the 7th century.

    What remained after was a medium power rump state that didn't resemble the Roman Empire at its height in any way shape or form.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This thread is about civilisation and literacy, not military might

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The total population declined, urban centers declined, literacy probably declined.

        Even the OG Romans did jack shit when it came to advancing scientific theory. The Byzantines copied and commentated but did little original work. In some cases they even regressed.

        Cosmas Indicopleustes for example was a literal flat earther.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >thread about Dark Ages
    >it IMMEDIATELY devolves into Russia vs Ukraine shitflinging
    This is a new low even for SighSee

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Were people still walking around in togas during the age of Hagia Sofia?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Byzantine society was unfortunately not very innovative or dynamic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Neither was ancient Roman society. The Byzantines were just as unimaginative, stagnant, petty, and banal as their predecessors.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well, Romans did invent plumbing and aqueducts. Also manufacturing at scale.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They got these things from the Etruscans and Greeks. But they were able to produce things at a much larger quantity than others, although you could also say the same for Byzantines.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I agree the Romans were overrated culturally and intellectually. However, they managed tremendous feats of civil engineering that allowed the places they went to prosper in a way they had never seen. The Byzantines did manage to build some cool stuff, but were to busy trying not to die to pull things of the same scale.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It depends on the era of the Byzantines, prior to the Arab conquests they essentially functioned the same. They had a seemingly infinite supply of slaves to build for massive ego projects, they didn't have any serious enemies that could destroy them (Khosrow II was the outlier).

          Once the Byzantines managed to recover in the 11th century, they did some of the things they did before. This includes large building projects, having a diminished supply of slaves for said projects, and launching annual imperialistic wars against their neighbors without much of an objective.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the people making those claims are usually either Western Europeans or come from their dependencies in the Americas, so the local experience looms very large even if it didn't hit everywhere.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the romans had batteries, central heating, and indoor plumbing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >romans had batteries
      Gifted to them by Yakub?

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Beautiful Constantinople

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It really is underrated.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

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