Have you noticed that after the fall of Rome, the europeans lived for centuries without sewers? My theory is that after the degenerates destroyed Rome, they also executed anybody intelligent who was able to stop them, which includes engineers and architects. Because of this, nobody was able to reproduce the difficult architecture of sewers for centuries. The same happened in Russia. After the degenerates destroyed Russia in 1917, they executed all the intelligent russians.
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WhiteRonin ago
Earth has a history of culling intellectuals. We have megalithic stones and structures that are not repeated. Look at the great pyramid. Flat level ground stone with over 2 million stones on top creating a complex eight sided figure aligned to gps standards.
After time fell, Mediterranean commerce gets stopped and money that had paid for that infrastructure you talked about is no longer available. It could be that the knowledge wasn’t passed on. Or even if it had, the access to material no longer existed so the chance to build something never came about.
There could be another factor. The church quickly established itself and the intellectuals were shunned in favor of crude robs and piety. Because trade was limited, the Jewish Pope turned to tidings to amass money and the build out of great cathedrals which weakened any other type of ability to fund infrastructure. This is a simple method used to control “Barons” from gaining any amount of huge power. Later on the Jewish Pope created crusades to once again weaken the aristocracy that was growing which took money, fathers and older sons out of the system for years or for good. This left behind young or weak inheritors which could be influenced by those who preached the good book.
The 3 Musketeers is obviously fiction but look at how the Jewish Pope basically controlled France.
With this we start into PRE-modern history and how you read very little about the church telling people to stop fighting wars or even trying to broker peace bargains. Why would the Jewish Pope be afraid to do that? Or was it another money grab because they knew people would fill their pews and pockets.
What happened to the Library of Alexandria? Who really burned it down? Who kept and hid what ever survived the fire? Maybe it held great knowledge that if made it back into simple people’s hands would have meant te continuation of what the Romans had?!?
Like you, I have wondered why we could repeat at least the ability to build Roman homes and ended up building shitty wooden shanty fences around shanty towns.
ardvarcus ago
No. That had nothing to do with the fall of the Roman Empire. Just the opposite, the rise of the Christian church slowed the collapse.