That video rules.
I dont have any schooling to offer you but I have a few random thoughts cuz i read your posts and that vid got me in the state of mind.
Thinking about it, its always strange to me to think of how western beliefs changed so drastically from what they used to be. The amount of holistic medicines and remedies that have come from ancient western cultures is vast. Much of it lost. Thinking about something like the dark ages when so much science was lost and abandoned in the western cultures, to be preserved and reintroduced later by cultures further east.
The connection could be in the middle east. If you think about at that time the only way informations like medicine or science was transfered between nations was by physical travel. Trading plays a huge part in that, then you have the trade routes that enter the middle east from both the east and west.
"The late encyclopaedists Boethius, Cassiodorus and Isidore who provided the only remaining links to Greek knowledge were all Christian scholars and it was only within the isolated Christian monasteries that the knowledge of education and science was kept alive, if only at a very low level. However, despite the low level of this knowledge preservation it provided the necessary fundament on which to build when Europe in its turn started to import knowledge from the Muslims in the 11th and 12th centuries, the people doing the importing (read translation) being all Christian scholars."
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Now take that into consideration. The church resupplying the west with science from the east. How much in the time that the west (at this point europe) were an uneducated, science devoid society, did the Muslims in the middle east develop and invent new sciences, at a later point imported back to the west by Christians?
Now is there a connection at this period of time in scientific development between the middle east and the far east? Heres what pops into my head. The Silk Road. Silk comes from China right? Every culture that has people of 'high society' like Sheiks use silk. How much of Chinese science did the Muslims import? We know there is Muslim kungfu.....
just some random thoughts for ya