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Also the Islamic Golden age. Imagine being the empire that spread algebra, Arabic numbers, the start of modern medicine, astronomy, and science but no one knows it came from you. Heartbreaking.
That's what happens when the successors do everything in their power to destroy your libraries. The destruction of the enemies history and literature is a longstanding human tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries
rare mongolian L
I think at least they commonly get credit in the West for their astronomy. Most of the stars that are visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere have Arabic names that are still in use
Thanks to plenty of anti-Islamic propaganda over the years