Aristotle alone is the greatest contributor to human history. And yes that’s an

Aristotle alone is the greatest contributor to human history. And yes that’s an empirical judgement. Unfortunately the equally influential characters (jesus and mohammed) were producing a counter-revolution against greco-roman-persian aristocratic thought which required a higher level of trust than middle easterners could possibly practice. The persians, despite their advantage, lost it because of Islam. The romans lost it because of christianity and invasion. But Europe pulled out of its dark age. The rest of the world, which islam is hostile to (and perhaps judaism as well), is attempting to either constrain islam from further damage, or in europe’s case, cause it to reform as europeans reformed christianity in to secular natural law.