Celritannia wrote:And yet, compared to that, we see the Baghdad house of Wisdom which was able to save a lot of the great works of Greek philosophers when the Ottoman Empire took over the rest of the Eastern roman Empire.
But remember, the Dark Ages paved the way for further superstition and the downgrading of a once great culture when local warlords, through the authority of the Church, were able to kill any who did not follow the Abrahamic God.
Your knowledge of history is abysmal, suffice to say.
The House of Wisdom began somewhere in the 7-8th centuries, under the Abbasid Caliphate which conquered large parts of the Roman Middle East, existing from 750-1258 AD. They didn't conquer the entirety of the Eastern Roman Empire, which existed and daresay thrived for several centuries, only to begin degrading due to Turkic conquerors, the Latin crusaders and Ottomans, culminating in the fall of Constantinople in 1453. So comparing Arabic scholars and Christian scholars is ridiculous. The Christian monks saved what they could after a complete collapse of the Western Roman Empire. For the time of the library's existence, the Abbasid Caliphate rubbed shoulders with the Byzantines. As you can see, the Eastern Roman Empire outlived the House of Wisdom and Abbasid Caliphate.
You can only argue that if you hold some notion that Roman culture was vastly superior to Western Christian culture, which I find ridiculous. Any study of medieval history will uncover a vibrant and fascinating culture, with beautiful art, architecture, literature and conventions. Yes it was violent, unjust and hierarchical but no more so than Rome.