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Originally Posted by A Few Acres of Snow
Yes, but compare the north coast to the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea. North Africa lost almost any link to the Classical world while Europe kept so much more of it alive.
Maybe I’m just in a positive mood today.
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The fact is simple. The north coast was experiencing an invasion by Muslims and desertification. Many roman remains are porbably buried under the shifting sands of the north coast while thge Muslims destroyed remanants of non-savage cultures. It's a well known fact that Muslims in the regions of europe they occupied actively encourage people to destroy signs of previous civilizations. The only reasons remnants survived in Europe was the fact that except parts of the Balkans no region of Europe became fully islamicized.