Quote Originally Posted by Franconicus
Why did it end? In Roman time there was a lot of iron + trade + everything. But people were not that creative. And today. At least the western coutries have enought food and time and iron.
It wasn't as if they stopped. They merely looked at other fields, architecture, city planning, infrastructure... They were perhaps not as academic but they kept their creativity.
In late antiquity it was another matter, but still people still thought about life and wrote about it, just to an even lesser extent as what they knew began to crumble around them.