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What book are you referring to exactly? "History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters" is a fiction, by Julian Barnes.

Is this the book you base your argument on?

I don't remember the exact book name, but it is not the argument, it is an example. The argument is multiple instances of pop culture statements and opinions where people believe that the world was on a pause between 476 and 1452 and even if someone else has created something, it was given meaning only when the europeans discovered and improved it. Don't feel obliged to believe me, I know what I've witnessed and shared a data point.

> it was given meaning only when the europeans discovered and improved it.

They also ignored what Europeans discovered in that period.

At the pop culture level a lot of people believe Medieval Europe was in a barbaric dark age and achieved nothing.

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