I have heard a similar term : "Don't be a chronological bigot." Essentially assuming that folks in the past, even in the ancient past, were less intelligent or

I have heard a similar term : "Don't be a chronological bigot." Essentially assuming that folks in the past, even in the ancient past, were less intelligent or less enlightened. I am mesmerized how Bronze Age folks figured out how to form an alloy out of copper and tin ... I am not sure how many folks could reproduce this from first principles and the knowledge base they had to work with.