I'm pretty sure the point of the comment that you're replying to is that, even in the non-European parts of the world where things like this were discovered, th

I'm pretty sure the point of the comment that you're replying to is that, even in the non-European parts of the world where things like this were discovered, those discoveries were lost and forgotten and the significance of those discoveries only became obvious after they were rediscovered in Europe once society was structured in a way that lead to people communicating and building on them.