Dr. Roy Casagranda pushes back against the artificial EastWest paradigm and show how the socalled "Dark Ages" was in fact a period with enormous intellectual achievement. After laying out the contradictions within the construct of the paradigm of western civilization, Dr. Casagranda examines how Muslim Persian, and Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Arab philosophers preserved and advanced Western civilization while Europe wallowed in the Medieval.
At 1:20:45 I say "When Qin the Great unifies India..." I obviously meant China.