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DDFr@best.com (David Friedman) writes:

> 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.
> -- 

Ah, yes, but still, it began that whole train of thought.  It may not 
have really made such a comparable difference as it has been able to 
today, it still helped people to live a little longer, and open their 
eyes a little wider during the Crusades, and see that there was something 
better out there.

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