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[Stere]

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Name one invention discovered in the Middle East

 

Cities

Farming/agriculture

Domestication of animals

Algebra

Astronomy

Standing Armies

Empires/states

Law Codes

Wheel

Banking/money

Decimal numeral system.

Bronze & iron smelting.

Irrigation

Coffee

Optics/lenses

Universities

Hospitals/medicine

 

Sorry got carried away...

 

 

 

 

 

[felixthelogchopper]

5 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Cities

Farming/agriculture

Domestication of animals

Algebra

Astronomy

Standing Armies

Empires/states

Law Codes

Wheel

Banking/money

Decimal numeral system.

Bronze & iron smelting.

Irrigation

Coffee

Optics/lenses

Universities

Hospitals/medicine

 

Sorry got carried away...

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, but apart from that?

[eggsarascal]

Oh, go on then.

 

 

Edited March 2, 2018 by eggsarascal

[TIMON]

Thankfully Iran are doing the decent thing and building universities in Syria now. That should improve things..........!
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/03/01/Iran-announces-opening-of-another-Islamic-college-in-Syria.html

[matelot]

21 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Cities

Farming/agriculture

Domestication of animals

Algebra

Astronomy

Standing Armies

Empires/states

Law Codes

Wheel

Banking/money

Decimal numeral system.

Bronze & iron smelting.

Irrigation

Coffee

Optics/lenses

Universities

Hospitals/medicine

 

Sorry got carried away...

 

 

 

 

 

So nothing in the last thousand years then.... You're making my point for me, so thanks very much

 

I'd imagine most things on your list were developed by many different societies independently... 

[WesD]

5 minutes ago, matelot said:

I'd imagine

Here we go again bending narratives. 

[stihlmadasever]

15 minutes ago, matelot said:

So nothing in the last thousand years then.... You're making my point for me, so thanks very much

 

I'd imagine most things on your list were developed by many different societies independently... 

Heres an idea...

Do what i did.

Google search inventions from the middle east in the last 100 years.

A long list will appear.

Read the list..

Absorb the information.

Adapt your opinion inlight of the new information you've taken on...

Breath...

[matelot]

2 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

Heres an idea...

Do what i did.

Google search inventions from the middle east in the last 100 years.

A long list will appear.

Read the list..

Absorb the information.

Adapt your opinion inlight of the new information you've taken on...

Breath...

It's just a fact that few inventions come from the Middle East.... The fact that you can't state a single world class invention from the Middle East from the last century proves it. Don't get defensive about it, just admit the truth.

 

When people (or societies) lie to themselves they make bad decisions....

[stihlmadasever]

4 minutes ago, matelot said:

It's just a fact that few inventions come from the Middle East.... The fact that you can't state a single world class invention from the Middle East from the last century proves it. Don't get defensive about it, just admit the truth.

 

When people (or societies) lie to themselves they make bad decisions....

Aha thats not what you said though is it..

You said name 1 invention to come out the middle east in the last century...

Now your sayin few inventions...

Im not being defensive im answering your questions.

The only truth is your makin an ass of yourself AGAIN and attempting to spin it round on those who disagree with your..well bollocks seems very apt here.

Im tired of proving you wrong,its boring,your too easy matelot too easy.

I like a challenge..

[difflock]

JHC

Matelot has a valid point to make.

Yes, back in the European Dark ages, Meadevial period etc, there was an intellectual flowering under Islam in the Arab world.

And "our" Crusauders were absolute barbarcic philistines compared to the then Muslim states

But not in the last couple of hundred years, has the Muslim/Arab world contributed much to knowledge or technological advancement.

On the other hand, the other Semetic people, the various Jewish populations have excelled in Noble Prize winning and such acedaemic stuff

Why?

I cannot offer an answer.

But it is a bald bare-assed fact, however unpalatable to some.

MTH