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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8181892, member: 84905"]True, but a Eurocentric view of the world is both understandable and justifiable in my view. After all, by and large the world has adopted European culture and the Roman Empire (and arguably the Carolingian Empire) is its foundation. This does of course not mean that other cultures are inferior or less interesting. They are just not as widespread and influential.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, I heard a public lecture by a Harvard historian who said that by AD 1000 there was "no money on Europe" to become the world's dominant culture. Instead, the middle east, Byzantium, the Islamic world and empires in the far east looked much more promising at the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, despite throwbacks due to Viking raids and invasions, the Carolingian renaissance was bearing fruit. In thousands of monasteries, monks were busy extending and refining agriculture and multiplying knowledge at an ever increasing rate. In AD 800 the monastery of Reichenau had 50 books, in 850 it had 1000.</p><p><br /></p><p>In turn this allowed for European populations to expand rapidly and to increase productivity and power. By the end of the 11th century European armies first appeared in the middle east and from the 15th century onwards Europeans appeared almost everywhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8181892, member: 84905"]True, but a Eurocentric view of the world is both understandable and justifiable in my view. After all, by and large the world has adopted European culture and the Roman Empire (and arguably the Carolingian Empire) is its foundation. This does of course not mean that other cultures are inferior or less interesting. They are just not as widespread and influential. Interestingly, I heard a public lecture by a Harvard historian who said that by AD 1000 there was "no money on Europe" to become the world's dominant culture. Instead, the middle east, Byzantium, the Islamic world and empires in the far east looked much more promising at the time. However, despite throwbacks due to Viking raids and invasions, the Carolingian renaissance was bearing fruit. In thousands of monasteries, monks were busy extending and refining agriculture and multiplying knowledge at an ever increasing rate. In AD 800 the monastery of Reichenau had 50 books, in 850 it had 1000. In turn this allowed for European populations to expand rapidly and to increase productivity and power. By the end of the 11th century European armies first appeared in the middle east and from the 15th century onwards Europeans appeared almost everywhere.[/QUOTE]
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