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(via ageofreason) To be fair, they made some advancements in like, chain mail. Lots of metallurgy-type stuff, plate armor, etc. They reapplied gunpowder from the Chinese.  The vaulted arch? I think? Or was that the Romans? Still, that’s a pretty pitiful track record for a thousand years. It was a lost millennium. Let’s never go back. No more magical thinking.

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To be fair, they made some advancements in like, chain mail. Lots of metallurgy-type stuff, plate armor, etc. They reapplied gunpowder from the Chinese.  The vaulted arch? I think? Or was that the Romans? Still, that’s a pretty pitiful track record for a thousand years.

It was a lost millennium. Let’s never go back. No more magical thinking.

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