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.
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