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[–]fuck_reddit 31 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 0 fun32 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just finished a nine week course on Medieval education and the stuff the monks knew in the Dark Ages would shame even the most educated of moderns. It’s pathetic how incompetent people are at argumentation nowadays.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds interesting, any examples of things they knew that might surprise people?

[–]fuck_reddit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They knew that the earth was round and that mercury and venus orbited the sun around 800 AD. It took them a bit longer though to figure out the other planets lol.