Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–Jewish sci. exchange

Re:Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–J... by pgeorgi on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:51PM (#39770538)

> Dividing the world into "Pagan countries" and "Christian countries" is both inaccurate

That's not what the post said. Just that, before Islam was even a thing, those countries that Jews lived in which these days are considered "Muslim countries" were broadly "pagan" and/or "christian", depending on time and location.

As for your assertion of no christian countries thousands of years ago, where you state yourself "Armenia converting about 1715-ish years ago": That's thousands of years (as in: more than 1000)

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Re:Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–J... by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:58PM (#39770601)

> those countries that Jews lived in which these days are considered "Muslim countries"

Is irrelevant, since we're talking about the 11th century. (I can't find a good 11th-century map to point at, but the article describes enough to give the impression of how different it was back then.)

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Re:Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–J... by pgeorgi on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:28PM (#39770981)

Three posts above the goal post stood at "inaccurate" and "overly-simplistic," now we're at irrelevant. Okay.

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