>>17943147
Nah, my thesis is as follows
1) The Romans destroyed the existing international research structures in the Hellenistic world and had some genetic issue that locked them out of comprehending anything beyond stacking rocks and Stoicism.
2) The Romans then turned the Greeks, who at least kept the sciences alive and crawling forwards on life support, into Romans. Aka they turned them into violent imbeciles.
3) The Romans then split their realm into a Latin and a Greek-speaking part, with two churches that both claimed supremacy
4) The Latin church, being the lumpen one, had no better way to protect itself against the rich and powerful Greek part than to throttle the transmission of all Greek literature until 1453
So literally all Romes that ever existed were detrimental to human progress. It took us until the late 16th century until we could securely claim that we were finally stopped treading water and started to progress beyond the achievements of the Hellenistic successor kingdoms.
