No, despite the way it looks it is not a joke, they were heathens (ie not christians). The name is from the Anglo Saxon chronicle (AKA the people they attacked) and so has a fair amount of bias to it.
How do we get maximal religious diversity in post-Roman Europe?
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No, despite the way it looks it is not a joke, they were heathens (ie not christians). The name is from the Anglo Saxon chronicle (AKA the people they attacked) and so has a fair amount of bias to it.
Roman Architecture wasn't that advanced when it comes to their neighbours : just look at Persians. It didn't prevented the former to see the latter as decadent and "oriental" (in the cliché meaning of the world).
As for architecture and other fields being as advanced : it wouldn't safe wishful thinking. Roman official architecture was advanced because you had a political and social motive for it (essentially civil ervegetism for urban monuments, and military purposes for roads for example). You didn't have such thing as a modern science concept : practical technology wasn't really tied up with theoretical sciences.
Basically, engineering was considered as something separate from sciences in most purposes; and more about empiric discoveries (hence why Romans ended up borrowing more to neighbouring peoples eventually).
To be fair, when you're under an important raid/invasion, you don't really take time to be that objective to the ones doing it.
Of course, I was more explaining why that is the name we use, as it does, at first glance, look like an odd way to refer to the Viking invasion of Great Britain.
Another way-a stronger Rome with a Emperor that sees the divisiveness of Faith. Laws are made-if two temples riot against each other both are burnt to the ground, etc.
Also, the Great Library was never destroyed-all that history and philosophy gets disseminated throughout the Empire.
Major trade and cultural contact with Han China.
Maybe it would work.
Also, the Great Library was never destroyed-all that history and philosophy gets disseminated throughout the Empire.
Major trade and cultural contact with Han China.
Maybe it would work.
GeographyDude
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That may be the key hinge point. That engineering had healthy interplay between theory and practice, whereas medicine with its four humours or whatever the philosophy of the day was, was considered a perfect theoretical whole.
That would likely decrease religious diversity; the Empire had no problem with demolishing the entire infrastructure of the Jewish faith.