Gries put it best when he said, "What Europeans showed from the sixth to the eleventh centuries was not so much inventive ingenuity as a remarkable capacity for assimilation". The ideas of those from the Middle Ages have had lasting influences that led to the fateful journey of Christopher Columbus. Gries has easily shown how the middle ages were not as backwards as most may think...
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I am amazed to think of all the critical innovations of our time have been developed during the dark ages. Some inventions and ideas were small, but some were as big and important as gunpowder and paper. However small or large, Gries has shown how the innovations of the Middle Ages led to the technologies of the Renaissance and how they have had a transcendent influence on mankind today...
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