why did it take humanity so extremely long to actually began

>>2768908
We thought we already knew.

It's hard to develop germ theory if you can't see the little bastards, and it's hard to see them without microscopes.

It's also hard to develop microscopes without a modern understand of optics, and hard to develop a theory of optics without a scientific revolution.

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>>2768913
people who came up with the germ theory of diseases didn't see the germs, they just noticed a certain pattern on how the disease spread and figured it had something to do with contaminated water.
this wasn't something new either , people thousands of years prior had seen this connection but still other explanations won out.

>>2768913
And it's hard to develop a scientific revolution without pre-Christian knowledge from the Middle East and Africa. It's a shame Christianity held back science for so long.

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microbiology thread?
did you know the plague still infects people in the USA?

>>2769050
>It's a shame Christianity held back science for so long.

Shut your proverbial fucking mouth, anon. Massive societal collapse is what caused science to stagnate, not the religious beliefs of Europeans in the western half of said society. The ridiculously religious Byzantine Empire had napalm and mechanical knowledge complex enough to make metallic lions roar and their throne appear to levitate.

>>2769109
Those death rates are kind of disconcerting, desu. If millions got infected, millions would die.

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>>2769447
they didn't call it the great mortality for nothing. the numbers here could be worse but thanks to modern medicine we can better the odds for anyone infected. unfortunately bacterial resistance to drugs is a growing problem. Still you are likelier to die from Tuberculosis than from plague.

>>2769435

>bu-bu-but muh dark ages

To add to this, whether you believe in God or not is up to each person. However, to say it didn't contribute massively to social stability and modern rule of law is to be a fucking idiot.

Disease is a meme.