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Originally Posted by Mule
I need a list! I want to know what other cultures "stood on the shoulders of giants that came before them" and "took those things, which OTHER, possible GREATER cultures created" and accomplished anything similar. I especially want a list of the other "possible GREATER cultures."
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Very few other great cultures stood on the shoulders of giants, because they were temporally and geographically isolated from each other. The Egyptians did not learn much from nor contributed much to the Sumerians, or the Chinese, yet each was able to create language, culture, education, government, finance, labor, recreation, philosophy, etc independently.
Only modern cultures have gleaned everything they know from the ancient ones.