Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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of monotheism, on the contrary, ushered in a
whole new era of intellectual liberty.
ROMAN CIVILIZATION
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica
writes:
Towards the close of the pre-Christian period,
the Roman Empire achieved dominance over
the entire Mediterranean world. Rome
presents a paradox to historians of science.
This civilization, so sophisticated and
apparently modern in its politics and
personalities, very strong in the learned
disciplines of the law, very progressive in the
state technologies of warfare and public
hygiene, with direct access to the corpus of
Greek science, nevertheless failed to produce
a single scientist.
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The article goes on to say that historians, attempting
to explain the Romans’ utter failure in science,
suggest that “perhaps the social structure of Rome,
combined with its long adherence to gross forms of
magic, left no place for an appreciation of that
peculiar commitment to the hard and hazardous
