yeah, except they knew the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe since Plato’s times

iflscience.com/the-greeks-proved-the-earth-isnt-flat-a-very-long-time-ago-without-any-modern-equipment-heres-how-45493

”Over 2,300 years ago, there was a great thinker called Aristotle, perhaps best known for his philosophical ponderings with Plato. Along with being a dab hand at politics, poetry, theater, music, natural sciences, and philosophy, Aristotle was also a prodigy of astronomy. Other ancient Greeks had hinted at the idea of a spherical Earth through vague poetic statements, including Plato and Pythagoras, but Aristotle was the first to concretely put it into words.”

”In the treatise On the Heavens, written way back in 350 BCE, he explained: "Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the Earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size. For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon.”

i genuinely cannot stand atheists dawg

lord please heal my heart

so galileo galilei just died for fun

galileo died because he was an arrogant heretic you stupid ass nigga

like holy f***ing s***

Lol

Was laughing my ass off at this post ngl

Catholic science was how can we make poor folk spend money to finance our massive cathedrals

Atleast they build schools for that

Also cant forget breweries

the dude had reaffirmed that the earth was not the center, and one of the high priests or w/e within the Church literally asked if he could come see the evidence

galileo was so pompous that he refused to show the nigga, so he was accused of heresy and persecuted

Perhaps the Dutch

Can’t see this thread bringing anything positive from it

its the pesky Norwegians

well it depends at what point effects become attenuated from a given cause

because, for instance, there is no anglo colonialism without iberian colonialism first

they debating US and the mongols like MJ vs lebron man

My man church f***ed up everything medicine related they had them people thinking it was jews that caused them to die of the black plague instead of basic Hygiene

versuz

ok

im slowly starting to become convinced that Enlightenment era rationalism was the single most disastrous thing out of anything mentioned itt in all honesty

At the end of the day the US is nothing but the most devious spawn of the British empire, so the blokes taking this one home easily

Shameful

I think killing 11% of the world is worse than what anyone else could do if imma be honest

Not to mention the fact that they leveled cities and countries to the point they are still f***ed to this day lol

The British empire basically dissolved in 1997. There were around 5 billion people then

Imagine if the Brits killed 11% of 5 billion people brah. Then, I would think they’re the unquestioned leader in all time evil and everyone would agree

i mean as a single event maybe, but causing overall damage to humanity still UK or US just due to their prolonged relevance

and leveling cities and countries to the point their f***ed is regular business for basically all imperial powers over history

I just don’t know what damage one could do that’s much worse than death (not to even account for the raping and pillaging that was done during Khan’s reign - Khan alone is reportedly linked to 16m people today via DNA)