Was the Islamic Golden Age down to Islam and the Arabs, or were

A little bit of both

>superior cultures they conquered

How does an inferior culture conquer a superior one?

>>2108924

With horse archers.

>>2108924
With a army?

>>2108924
how did barbarians conquer Rome?

>>2108924
By the superior ones being severely weakened by plague and war

>>2108928
So then the superior culture had an inferior army.

So how is their culture superior to begin with?

>>2108940
They don't Fuck goats for starters

>>2108944
Right, civilized people fuck the noble deer.

>>2108929
Rome's economy was collapsing

They stole everything from glorious Zoroastrian Persia, everything.

t. Bahram

>>2108913
Depends - there were some good Muslims caliphs, there were some bad ones.

>>2108956
what does that have to do with anything, they were still a superior culture

>>2108913
>>2108916

He answered it for you. Central Asia was an intellectual powerhouse before being conquered, though the stability, lingua franca and (up to the 12th Century) state support for intellectuals that typified Arab rule over Central Asia certainly helped it.

Good book on the subject is "Lost Enlightenment"

>>2108995
persia is not central asia

>>2109380
Technically it is.

>>2108960
That is simply false.
They stole plenty of things from India and the Byzantines

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>>2108927
This.

>>2109408
>India and the Byzantines
they outdid them both.

>>2108913
>Euros and Asians culture is created from the exchange of ideas and past civilizations influence
"Truly a superior culture"
>Arabs culture is created from the exchange of ideas and past civilizations influence
"Huurrr they stole it!!!!! The golden age is a leftist lie"

Sometimes I wonder if anyone in this board has ever actually read a history book

>>2108913
>riding on the coat tails of the superior cultures they conquered
every empire ever did this

>>2110358
This. Idk why denying the achievements of other cultures is something so many conservatives feel like they need to do. As if you need to disregard all others cultures to be proud of your own.