Is that why Rome forgot how to make concrete?
Is that why Rome forgot how to make concrete?
Good question. I think it was a regional thing. Remember, they mined the volcanic materials for that particular concrete from a particular region. Balkanization during feudalism (due to overextension and diluting the money supply) would have made this knowledge largely irrelevant as it became more and more dangerous to travel. And so it would become lost information.
To determine whether your refutation of my hypothesis is correct, we'd have to determine if any regions continued to produce roman concrete, for how long, and in what proximity to the key ingredients.
Production at a distance for decades or generations after, would be circumstantial evidence counter to the theory of a "new dark age."
However production immediately dropping off, or only proximate to key ingredients, would suggest you are correct.
The Roman process for concrete was completely lost during the age of Christianity. It didn't survive anywhere.
What you're saying about the need to examine if it continued to be produced elsewhere for a time has nothing to do with it. The process was lost because Christianity ushered in a dark age of papal plantations that only cared about the supply of prostitutes for the popes and clergy.
Rome is the best example of a society that failed due to globalistic/empirialistic policies brought about by Christianity.
Christianity is a plague and European countries only thrived when it's been weakened to the degree that it can't terrorize intelligent people for saying, "This is retarded".
You're not being objective when talking about this subject because of some bias, probably because it's been hardwired into your identity from a young age or you're financially dependent on totting a line.
Rome is the best example of a society that failed due to globalistic/empirialistic policies brought about by Christianity.
If you're gonna educate people then you need details. From what I understand rome overextended itself and I've never seen that connected directly to christianity.
You're not being objective when talking about this subject because of some bias
How so?
probably because it's been hardwired into your identity from a young age
Negative. Chose it willingly based on what I knew and learned on my own. Was an atheist before, with an ex-catholic family.
you're financially dependent on totting a line.
No amount of money can buy my soul.
It's not for sale.
Seriously. Come to my door with a check for $50 million or any amount really.
Ain't gonna fucking happen.
I'd love to prove it out of spite.
I believe what I believe because there are fundamental truths in this world whether they're convenient or not. It is true that there are a lot of things in this world that are accepted as hard truth that are not, but that does not mean that morality is relative, or that there are no hard truths, however convenient that would be for an entire people embattled against their own extermination.
Conscience is either a blessing or a curse.
If you can accept what I just told you without further convincing, then you're halfway to being a decent person. Or at least, failing that, using your evil for the right reasons.
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