Yeah - the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia (what is now Iraq and Kuwait.)
Writing was invented in the same area, and also by the Mayan and Chinese civilizations.
Our numbering system is basically Arabic (try doing advanced mathematics in Roman numerals)
Tell me again about the superior position of European cultures?
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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whitey (after the fashion of the romans) assimilated other cultures.
whitey itself, really has no "culture" (except, perhaps, rape and pillage and holy grails) (and fucken dickheads on the internet)
arabic decimal, i've been given to understand (and never bothered to learn) is base 7.Metric suffers base 10. we really should be duodecimal by now but the gregorian pope wasnt too happy about progress. but hey. at least we're not US and trying to make the world in binary (base 2)
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