As an Egyptian those kinds of activist interpretation of history are just endlessly tiring and no less annoying than when/if the occasional Greek-fevered guy or

As an Egyptian those kinds of activist interpretation of history are just endlessly tiring and no less annoying than when/if the occasional Greek-fevered guy or gal think that Greeks invented knowledge in exactly 300 BC. and not a year before. There are many reasons not to descend into this kind of point-scoring: - Zeroth, it's super disrespectful, all of those cultures were the first breath of civilization that we know of. I'm not an emotional guy and I'm fairly pissed off at a lot of aspects of human civilizations, but even I think that the Old Ones deserve more respect than being compared to each other in a fantasy, silly competition that nobody asked for and doesn't serve anything except satisfying petty modern grievances. ("nooo, my ancients could beat up your ancients"). - First, the premise is naive and ahistoric. The modern 'west' was shaped by countless forces, Christianity, Islam's contact, Protestant Reformation, Enlightenment, colonialism, etc... Exactly zero (0) of those things happened to Classical Greece, the 'west' would be as alien a civilization to them as Persians. When you start looking for other civilizations achievements to 'offset' the contribution of Greeks, you fail to notice that the Greeks aren't western in any reasonable sense of the word. You have been dragged into a game with fundamentally silly rules. Don't try to win silly games. - Second, civilizations reinvent each other's wheels all the time, there is no reason why the same environment that inspired Egyptian and Babylonian scholars didn't also inspire Greek scholars. - Third, it's exaggerated how much 'white supremacist' actually exist outside of one or more imagination. The term became meaningless. Liking your civilization more is not being supremacist, it's a natural, if misguided, instinct that is present in the vast majority of population of all cultures.