Seen it, it is a BBC documentary after all. Are you aware of how much interaction there actually was in the so called dark ages?
VIKINGS IN THE EAST_Remarkable Eyewitness Accounts
The Georgian Mameluks in Egypt
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There was also trade with china and india. The spreading of ideas has not been one way nor did islam or judaism spring up in isolation form the rest of humanity. Good grief the celts even get a mention in the bible and I think the koran as well but i'm not sure. Without the european talent for war and the trading of iron for weapons perhaps the shape of the middle east would be very different indeed.
The more you dig in to it the more you realise we really are all Jock Tamson's Bairns and religion is a divisive force in the world not a unifying one.