ABSTRACT
Many great histories could be written about knowledge in China and India, among Native North Americans, and among every other group of people who have ever walked the earth. A common language, with, of course, cultural nuances, allows people in the research community to learn from one another’s work and thus more effectively advance knowledge. Countless volumes have been written on the contributions of Greek mathematicians, philosophers and artists to Western culture. Greece gradually gave way to Rome after a series of military conquests and territorial annexations. In 146 bce, Roman armies defeated the Greeks in the Battle of Corinth. The Eastern Roman Empire survived hundreds of years longer than the Western Empire and became the Byzantine Empire. In the later Middle Ages, theology became gradually decoupled from science and philosophy. The protective belts around theology weakened and finally collapsed with the spread of Protestantism.
