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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

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.

Are you switching over to my side?

Only modern cultures have gleaned everything they know from the ancient ones.

Can you list those? Modern Africa? Modern South America? Modern Asia? Modern Antarctica, help me out here.