That’s a description given by their political rivals — and a strawman. It also doesn’t support the original claim: that people talk down about Babylon and Egyp

That’s a description given by their political rivals — and a strawman. It also doesn’t support the original claim: that people talk down about Babylon and Egypt, a claim that never appears in the article. Celebrating Greece and Rome as European achievements doesn’t denigrate people from other areas. Nor does acknowledging how their philosophy filtered into European and later American thought. The paragraph you cited sounds like a bad faith “hit piece” unrelated to the claims that are being discussed regarding Babylon and Egypt.