notes:burke

@-1:07: James Burke stops at a stop sign in the middle Tunisian Desert
@-1:44: Inventors use patents to claim their inventions
@-2:31: James Burke is in the city of Tunis articulating how through Science and Technology our standard of living has gone up
@-3:11: James Burke explains our culture today is the opposite of what used to be; where we are facing forward rather then backwards
@-3:30: As the Ancient Roman empire was falling apart, in Ancient Carthage during the 6th Century BCE a lawyer named Martianus Capella tried to salvage the Roman educational techniques
@-4:10: Augustine of Hippo didn't want to figure out the world, but wanted to look forward to the second life
@-6:08: Barbarians enjoyed farming and drinking
@-6:53: Monks regularity visited remote Barbarians
@-7:40: To Monks, nature was nothing more than symbols

@-0:30: For centuries in Europe people believed their status was given to them by God
@-1:22: On Christmas Day, year 800, Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope
@-1:34: When Charlemagne took over, all but some priests were illiterate
@-1:46: Charlemagne brought in intelligent people like Alcuin of York to begin the educational system using the same educational methods that Martianus Capella salvaged in 6th Century BCE
@-2:27: Seven Liberal Arts: Music, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, grammar, rhetoric and logic
@-3:34: By the year 950, Europe was back on it's feet and by the year 1000 trade had begun and the very first European marketplaces opened up.
@-4:27: The birth of consumerism and the concept of eating out
@-5:25: By 1050 Bologna, Italy was a vibrant trade route between northern and southern Europe
@-7:23: Bologna had many status symbols
@-8:00: 1076 Ancient Roman Law was discovered

@-0:38: El Cid led Christian Crusades to liberate southern Spain from the Arabs
@-1:10 The Mezquita in Cordova, Spain took 200 years to build and was the 2nd largest mosque next to Mecca
@-1:50: In 970 there were mo1re books in Cordova, Spain then there were in the whole of France, not to mention 70 libraries
@-2:44: The Spanish Arabs of Cordova enjoyed the amenities that the best technology and engineering of the time could offer
@-3:20: Arab Spain gave Europe paper, poetry, desserts and more
@-3:46: El Cid's Christian armies were comprised of mercenaries
@-4:25:: In 1080, Alfonso VI of Castile took advantage of a vulnerable Arab Spain to claimed a Crusade victory at Toledo Spain
@-4:30: James Burke calls the Crusades in Spain "great Christian Propaganda"
@-4:50: Marriage between Christians and Arabs was common in 11th Century Spain
@-4:47: The fall of Toledo Spain in 1085 is a Christian Myth
@-6:12: Toledo Spain ...

@-0:10: Aristotle's logic led to synergism which, when combined with Ancient Greek and Ancient Arab knowledge, ended the Middle Ages
@-1:26: At the end of the 12th Century in Bologna, Italy, the translation of ancient texts led to the institutionalization of knowledge
@-1:40: James Burke is at The University of Bologna
@-5:08: The Catholic Church was having problems with members being skeptical
@-6:01: Peter Abelard caused problems for the Catholic Church by pointing out many Biblical Contradictions
@-6:28: William of Conches and Thierry of Chartres took the Bible apart during the 12th Century and this was unthinkable
@-7:21: Chartres Cathedral were architectural marvels of the time, complete with arches and stained glass windows
@-9:39: By 1210 the Pope had banned Aristotle and Arab books, the students went on strike

@-0:25: Theodoric of Freiberg experimented with rainbows in 1304 to find out what made colors
@-1:20: Using a spherical flask filled with water, Theodoric of Freiberg could see four colours: Red, yellow, blue and green
@-2:55: Theodric's theories on light radically changed how people thought
@-3:40: In Western culture, change in is happening so rapidly it's getting increasingly difficult for the developing world to catch up