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Medieval Science (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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The Golden Age of Science

It is a widely held trope, this idea of the dark ages inverted commas. That we get when the Roman Empire is set to collapse in the late 400s. And there is something to that a bit. I mean, we do get a population collapse. There are some technologies that do fall out of use, right, Seb? Yeah, the Roman Empire collapses. Everything's falling apart politically, economically. Science depends on wealth, science depends on communication, on education. All of these things are linked to politics and economics. But of course, theRoman Empire doesn't completely fall because it continues in Eastern Europe. You know, they're building Hagia Sophia, one of the greatest

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