>hear stories about rivers turning red with humans' blood
>yeah whatever
>read about the sacking of baghdad in 1258
>tigris turns blackish blue from the ink of books being thrown in
>libraries burned to the ground
>i feel my spine clench up
>mfw all those books lost forever
MONGOL SCUM
>liberal arts students care more about books than human lives
>mfw they complain STEMfags are heartless
>>1300502
>humans' blood
>spine clench up
Are you a book?
600 hundred years before that the Muslims dumped the Sassanid library of Ctesiphon into the Euphrates.
What goes around comes around.
>>1300658
>one civilization having their works of literature burnt / stolen justifies another "civilization" doing the same to them
>>1300703
Yes
>>1300502
if it's any consolation OP, the vast majority of that would have been STEM texts, and liable to be rediscovered anyway.
