the other- Menocal writes that the recent surge, over the past few centuries, in the development of Europe and the Americas, due to imperialist pursuits, has led them to classify themselves as a distinct entity from the Arab cultures that had helped lay the groundwork for the very same Renaissance that had given the western world power. Because the west found itself as the victors of war it was able to record history as it saw fit and only gave anecdotal credit to the Arab cultures for helping establish the rudiments of western progress. Instead the west has alienated itself from these cultures that tremendously aided their now privileged existence and ignores the fact that the dark ages were only a dark age in western societies; the cultures of the middle east as well as the Arab influence in Spain were making great strides in areas such as mathematics and […]
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