< >> My question is why did everything go to Hell between 300BC and 0AD? H < >> you believe the earth was flat? Where did this idea come from < < > Wasn't that around the time of the burning of the 'library' in < > Alexandria? < < In fact, did anybody belive this, or is it just a < urban legend ? I think it is ascribed to the dark ages, roughly 700-1400AD Europe. The polical power of the church was strong then and science was nearly exitinct. Allison