“Unfortunately, since Europe was in its dark ages when the Middle East was in its zenith, and only became enlightened after the decline of the Middle East, much of this history is not well understood. The Enlightened Europe truly believed all things started in Europe and treated the Middle East as the source of “nothing”.
It is this lack of understanding of history that allows people to misrepresent it and pretend to be something that they are not.”
before the crusades we had civilisations not based on sccriptures, but oral (celts) and on votives objects, such as small sculptures, jowellery, decorated arms… then came the roman influence in architecture, design of cities, temples, and churches ! Do you know the roman style of them ? in Poitiers we still have a baptistere of this era, which is a marvel of architecture and that still has it fresco decorations.
Unfortunately, since Europe was in its dark ages when the Middle East was in its zenith, and only became enlightened after the decline of the Middle East, much of this history is not well understood. The Enlightened Europe truly believed all things started in Europe and treated the Middle East as the source of “nothing”.
It is this lack of understanding of history that allows people to misrepresent it and pretend to be something that they are not.
Unfortunately, since Europe was in its dark ages when the Middle East was in its zenith, and only became enlightened after the decline of the Middle East, much of this history is not well understood. The Enlightened Europe truly believed all things started in Europe and treated the Middle East as the source of “nothing”.
It is this lack of understanding of history that allows people to misrepresent it and pretend to be something that they are not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%C3%A8re_Saint-Jean
there are plenty of such monuments in France northern Spain, northern italy.
Also our abbaye of Mont-St-Michel is said to have been the place where Aristote texts were translated, and then being at the origin of the “first Renaissance” which corresponded to Charlemagne era, and initiated the Art ghotique and the first school of philosophy, all that before the crusades and the andalusian civilisation
