All true. Read what again?
That caveat "as a live technology" is not strong: many technologies Did pass between cultures even though they weren't attached to the camel.
(Western) Rome wasn't around in 1000AD, Europe was.
That caveat "as a live technology" is not strong: many technologies Did pass between cultures even though they weren't attached to the camel.
(Western) Rome wasn't around in 1000AD, Europe was.
True, but your original claim was about Rome ignoring a technology that wasn't available until 524 years after Rome fell. And I'd still like to see some evidence that gunpowder existed before 476 as well so that Rome could ignore it.
Western Roman empire fell in 476.
Wasn't available until after Rome fell? That was my point - it was there all the time (perhaps since 200AD, certainly at 500AD).
(All according to Wikipedia.)