History Memes

Explanation: Gothic Architecture is a style of architecture which became popular in the ~12th century AD in Europe, and the style most people would probably mentally associate with Medieval Europe. It was influenced in large part by Christian Crusaders returning from the "Holy Land", where they had seen many magnificent buildings built during the (then-ongoing) Islamic Golden Age. Because of that exposure, Europe began to incorporate features from Islamic architecture, both stylistic and practical.

This is what happens when you dump skill points into trigonometry early. Worked for the greeks too.

"the mode which came into fashion after the Holy War. This we now call the Gothick manner of architecture (so the Italians called what was not after the Roman style) tho’ the Goths were rather destroyers than builders; I think it should be with more reason called the Saracen style; for those people wanted neither arts nor learning; and after we in the West had lost both, we borrowed again from them, out of their Arabick books, what they with great diligence had translated from the Greeks." Paul Wren In his letter to the bishop of Rochester in 1713.