cause youre looking at it from a christian perspective, step out of that and you quickly realize everything was built upon the groundwork laid out by pagan philosophers, mathematicians,scientists, ect. it wasnt until christian dark ages where religion shunned intellectual curiosity and technological progress. the renaissance was a renewal of the arts of sciences from the time europe was pagan but with a christian veneer due to the catholic church prohibiting anything that wasnt purely christian. it wasnt until the age of enlightenment where we started to see real technological progress, coincidentally when people started questioning religion and breaking free from catholic control.
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