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How to cope with discovering your timeline of human progress was wrong

I keep seeing posts about the 'Islamic Golden Age' and I feel stupid because I thought science just stopped after Rome fell and started again with Copernicus.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The revelation of historical ignorance threatens one's sense of intellectual competence and cultural understanding.

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“Where Are You with Islamic and Arab contributions to science and technology — historical?”

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