The Islamic Golden Age lasted between the 8th to the mid-13th centuries. As the Muslims pushed further to the east, they crashed into the Chinese Tang dynasty. The apocryphal story is that at the Battle of Talas in 751, the Muslims discovered the Chinese secret of making paper. That changed everything.

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Renaissance #181 – Islamic Golden Age (Reconquista #2)
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