Their technology and compasses and stuff stopped working. I d k. I looked it up.
Woodblock printing enabled Buddhists to get certain principles of Buddhism accross on the wooden tables which enabled for faster spreading of buddhism. With this, buddhism eventually grew into one of the major world religions as we know them today.
South America was mainly colonized by Spain, whose main goal was to spread Catholicism to "save" the native people.
D; it didn't stop advancements for the next two years but paused it for a while.