The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons

The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

Jonathan Lyons with Jay Snyder (Narrator)

9 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2008 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch eve...

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