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Everything mentioned existed in Europe before Islam did. Majority Greek/Roman texts were preserved by Byzantine clerics. Historians no longer call it the "dark ages". Barbarians didn't destroy all texts they found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Classics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_contributions_to_the_Islamic_world https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87fvt7/the_oftrepeated_assertion_that_islam_preserved/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom https://archive.org/details/firstfarmersorig0000bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances https://www.getty.edu/news/no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages/ https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/05/25/debunking-the-so-called-dark-ages/ https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/the-not-so-dark-middle-ages https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-the-dark-ages-ignores-how-classical-traditions-flourished-around-the-world-180982190/ https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmidd0000unse_y1k9_supp1/page/383/mode/2up https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/just-how-dark-were-the-dark-ages https://historyforatheists.com/2024/09/the-great-myths-15-what-about-the-dark-ages/ https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740435164788830503
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