societal advances smackdown (0-1750 AD vs 1751 AD- present)

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Bullshit, they were just the rudimentary beginnings of all those sciences, stuff we teach grade school kids. They were far from developing the sciences we have even though they named them. Their biggest shortcoming is they only shared their knowledge with a few of their fellow noble class students, that's why when the libraries were lost the knowledge was lost, except the stuff people were using.

The base of the knowledge might have been rudimentary but some of the applications were extremely complex. Most graders can understand the basic concept of Force = Mass * Acceleration but no third grader can understand some of the very complex applications of it.