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Quality
Not only with the business class but most of the artisans and craftsman as well
Literacy was good but numeracy came about in 1338 ad with the abacus school and became just as important as literacy
It all began with the new testament
After all we lived with the ptolemaic system for centuries and made great progress in astronomy even though the ptolemaic syst... Read More
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However he then extends it farther by insisting that the stagnation of catholic countries such as spain and france in the later... Read More
Competitiveness
Capitalism started in the catholic churchin europeand stayed to change the world
Starks different and fascinating viewpoints on history and why the west runs the world
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- This product had a total of 217 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 22 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Altogether great but the bias is palpable from page 1
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are not enough spaces to justify the reading of such a well written primerif you will on the true origins of capitalism
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He likes to assert that catholicism supported capitalism during the middle ages but in the next breath he mentions how those supposedly supported capitalists had to flee catholic lands in order to find freedom elsewhere
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Stark does not make that distinction and thusly falls into the trap of protestantcatholic history
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Overall however he makes a sound argument in that reason capitalism society and western civilization could only have sprung from a biblical tradition
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It exposes past lies about the supposed dark ages after the fall of the roman empire
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am giving it 5 stars but i did not order that book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I ordered jesus calling and had it direct mail to my daughter