The discovery of the Americas
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The "lost knowledge" in ancient Greek texts reintroducedby the Islamic Moorish invaders in Spain enabled the Europeans to build things that had not existed there since the fall of the Roman Empire. This ignited an interest in learning that had been largely extinguished under the Catholic church, bringing on the Renaissance and ending the Middle Ages. There were no actual "advances", only the reintroduction of previously existing knowledge either once lost or actively suppressed (e.g. the burning of the Library of Alexandria by the decree of the Coptic Christian Pope Theophilus of Alexandria in 391 AD).
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Short time after photo cameras have been invented, people started thinking of making motion pictures - and invented cinema based on the same technological principle.