Do you think we'll have another dark age(s)? Or are we past that kind of stuff?

[trisho.]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=trisho.]
During the Dark Ages we know (and focus) about in Western history, while Europe was thumbing its asses and not washing its hands to avoid a plague, the rest of the world figured out engineering, calculus, cartography, gun powder and washing its hands.

Huh?

Calculus was invented by Newton and Liebnitz (Europeans, sort of). Washing hands for purposes of antisepsis was invented by some French guy (Pasteur) or some English guy (Lister) (Europeans, sort of). No region opened up more of the world (think "cartography" and Mercator) than The Old World (Europeans, sort of).

Gun powder and engineering were invented about 25,000 years ago (before the dawn of man and the creation of the World).
Apologies, I was thinking algebra but mistakenly wrote calculus. I was going through the higher maths I've taken. The other stuff still stands as being concepts other civilizations figured out before Europe. You don't need science to tell you to wash your hands in order to avoid a plague from spreading...along with disposing of bodies properly. That's common sense. The Mongols were using infected bodies as biological warfare back in the 1300s.