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In article <F10sPe5w165w@mp.sbay.org>, jane@mp.sbay.org (Mingjane Wu) wrote:

>Umm, can we say the Moors?  We can thank them for our current characters 
>for numbers, not to mention introducing some basic medical techniques 
>that pulled Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  If 
>you can't see such contributions, you need to look harder.

I think if you look harder, you find that the decimal system came from
India, and that the medical techniques came from the Middle East, although
some of them might have been introduced to some parts of Europe by the
Moors.

I am also curious as to why you think that medical techniques pulled
Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. I had thought that it was
not until about the 18th century that medicine was good enough to matter
much--and even then only for the elite. By that time the Renaissance was
over.
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