London Times - Quote of the week - Affirmative Action

[Bar0n]

Egypt, Greece, Sumeria, all nice warm places with very moderate winters. No need to change anything because things were peachy there....

Yes, but trade would have been important and knowledge and inventions would have been shared with neighbouring countries.

[Bar0n]

And Egypt was a pretty advanced country as well.

[STS]

Egypt, Greece, Sumeria, all nice warm places with very moderate winters. No need to change anything because things were peachy there....

I'm not going to get into an "egyptians were not africans" debate
Point is they had access to culture and other civilisations. Just read the wiki article on Sumer to see how much other populations influenced them.