| Kayode J. Fakinlede |
I fully agree with Fakinlede.
Nubian-Egyptian culture from ancient northeast Africa was such a dominant factor in the education of the Greeks and Romans. This becomes an avenue for the global penetration of their ideas.
I fuse Nubia and Egypt for specific reasons. The Nubians influenced Egypt and vice versa.In fact hieroglyphics itself was of Nubian origin according to scholar/travelers like Diodorus Siculus and even the archeological record. There are also many examples of Nubian artifacts and techniques being classified as Egyptian.
Developments in the sciences, including medicine, would be borrowed by the Greeks from this region and so, too, aspects of mathematics and astronomy. You only have to read Herodotus, Aristotle and others to see this point. The Greeks were not shy in acknowledging their debt to the scholars of the region. The point is that much of Greek knowledge, though not all, was of northeast African origin and this spread around the world through multiple avenues.By the way Alexander was actually a destroyer of knowledge. Recall that he burnt the Egyptian libraries.
I would also consider ancient Iraq (Mesopotamia) as a significant area with global influence with respect to astronomy and maths.
Around 600 BC, before the emergence of Greek philosophers and scientists such as Thales and others, Indian scientists such as Kanada, Susruta and others were active. I believe they influenced the Greeks too. Alexander got into the picture around 300 BC.
Once you do a careful timeline, things fall into place.
You have the real father of medicine, Imhotep emerging around 2700 BC. Hippocrates emerges more than two thousand years later but helps to
spread Imhotep's ideas about medicine- including his stethoscope, medical devices and medical code of behavior to Europe.
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