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Comments by "Hello There" (@northseapirate2313) on "How Islam Saved Western Civilization - Explained in 7 Minutes." video.
This video is filled with inaccuracies. The Library of Alexandria was already destroyed after Julius Caesar’s conquest of the city in 48 BC. What was destroyed was the Serapeum, a Pagan Temple which housed few books and was mostly just a meeting place for scholars The Dark Ages meanwhile were caused by the fall of the Roman Empire, not the Catholic Church, and the Byzantines were still a major force in scientific and other scholarly advancement for a thousand years after this. If anything, the Catholic Church saved literacy and knowledge. The Renaissance was likewise started by Greek refugees fleeing the brutal Turkish conquests of their homeland as well as competition between Italian city states, not the Crusades. Finally, Roy Casagrande is not a good source, as he is a political science teacher, not an accredited historian.
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Arab Sicily lasted for 260 years, not 80
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@keekl6870 The Reconquista was a good thing, by the 11th century the rulers of Al Andalus became religious fanatics who expelled or force converted Jews and Christians. Spaniards just took their land back from the occupying Arabs
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