>>12955599>>12955599>chinese remainder theoremEducation for scientific purposes had existed for more than 150 years before it began in China. The industrial revolution and renaissance took place in Europe. A lot of different factors were necessary to get us where we are today.
It is highly likely, albeit still just hypothetical, that if Ottoman rulers had found more military uses for the inventions some of their learned noblemen had made, that we'd be living in an entirely different world, where the middle east was at the center of all technological progress.
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>If I don't know of anything, then it must not existIs not a rational train of thought. Go take a class on informal and formal logic, then you can post on /sci/, /pol/nigga.