Thu 30 Jun, 2011 07:53 pm - We owe to the mighty Chinese the invention of the printing press? The same Chinese who are presently going out of their way to censor and block Internet access for their citizens? How ironic. How... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 06:48 pm - The Latin language was of parmount importance in the spreading of scientific and philosophical knowledge after 1500, because it served as a universal language of intellectual exchange. The... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 06:41 pm - Printed pamphlets led to the circulation of polotical and philosophical ideas and to the establishment of discussion salons in Europe's manors in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 06:36 pm - In Feudal times there was no "Labor Market". Peasants were bound to the land. Capitalism invented the "Labor Market". It followed after the peasnats revolts in England and in... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 01:57 pm - Language has always been the key to all progress. Rome gave us its great commercial empire and the Latin language to spread science with. I agree. (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 01:42 pm - Knowledge comes by asking questions. Nobody, at any given time has all the answers, but this no reason to be afraid of posing questions. It is my contention that there is something unique in... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 01:31 pm - Yes, as you point out, the Chinese and Koreans had printing presses and yet remained backward societies, ruled over by warlords. So perhaps all the amazing social progress made among Europeans,... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 12:58 pm - I am by no means a "whiner" I am proud of all the work I have done studying history and am willing to go at it with anyone who whishes to discuss the matter in an intellegent way. I never... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 12:53 pm - With all due respect. People do things because they have ideas. No significant action in history passes without a plan. I think it is reasonable to assume that anything which greatly assists the... (view)
Thu 30 Jun, 2011 12:46 pm - Extremely crude; vulgar, uneducated, hopelessly stuck on stupid. What a shame. Is a history forum really the right place for such an immature mind? Maybe you should try animated war games. There... (view)
