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Re:Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics' by jbay808 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:57PM (#26295995)
> But, overall, the single biggest event to impact the era was probably the Mongol sacking of Baghdad.

Just goes to show how Eurocentric my history education was; I never heard about this. Fascinating.

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Re:Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics' by andrepd on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:32PM (#26298495)
I never learned that my country used forced labour in its colonies until the 60s, or that we dropped napalm on civilian villages as a reprisal. I'm very skeptical about the quality of history lessons in school, no matter the country.
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