Correction: As far back as the early 60s of the last century Major A Von S Bradshaw ( an Englishman , used to ride his bicycle to school) used to say that the future belongs to China
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:20:21 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
A .T Von Bradshaw our English Master in the 4th form ( circa 1962) was fascinated by China, said that the future belongs to China , often started a lesson with a Chinese proverb on the ( then) blackboard : "The house of learning is one house" - much later my friend Mikhail Tunkel had other fascinating things to say about China, such as the sixth sense ( tactile) which he claimed is specially Chinese, the sense of touch, that a Chinese bank teller can count notes faster than a machine – and then there's the piano fingers too, and that we ain't seen nothing yet . Today, everybody is talking about China.
There's the popular thesis about China's contributions to the Renaissance , that the Renaissance came from China . More recently, Gavin Menzies' fascinating account :1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
For future historians : China is now leaving indelible footprints in Africa where it all began...
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 08:17:36 UTC+1, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:Good point but the Egyptians built their first pyramid around 2600BC and Rome emerged as a city state around 753 BC.
Can we say that the Romans influenced the Egyptians in their construction of the pyramids - when pyramid construction ceased around 1500 BC?
The Ionian Greeks were the first group of intellectuals that we know and they are a bit later than the Romans. The Greek philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Socrates emerge around 400BC. Can we say that they influenced people like Imhotep who were long dead and buried over two thousand years before? For example, Plato was born around 427 BC.
In the case of Mesopotamia, Persia and even China you have more contemporaneous interaction and there are areas of diffusion and borrowing using the model that you suggest, but some cases are clear cut.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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