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Originally Posted by Kernunnos
I ever kept asking myself, if we europeans have shown so much progress in art and sciences for centuries, why are we so conspicously absent from the canonical set of first civilizations?
Perhaps it isn't so true ... I'm not saying Kemp like people are right, since he is clearly a superficial writer that does more damage than anything else to the reutation of europan peoples.
But I don't swallow this idea of a primitive world being introduced into civilization by non-europeans, at least as a whole.
Some of us were part of the inception of civilization.
After all in continental Europe there was an abundance of timber, so there was no such urgent need to make stone buildings ...
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If we take into acount the possibility of a common ground of Indoeuropean and Uralic langauges (
Indo-Uralic), then there might be a chance that a connection between Sumerians and Europans exists, i.e. this link might take us to ancestors, shared by both Sumerians and Indo-Europeans.
Although, Sumerian myths tell us (as I've read somewhere) that they weren't the first civilisation that has risen on the face of our planet. Sumerians succeeded this ancient wisdom from another one, before them, as they claim in their mythology.