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Ancient Egypt was clearly a highly advanced civilization, and had already existed and been well established for well over two thousand years before the high point of Athenian culture. But why is it that we take so much of our philosophy, literature, math, etc., from the Greeks, and not Egyptians?

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Ancient Egypt was clearly a highly advanced civilization, and had already existed and been well established for well over two thousand years before the high point of Athenian culture. But why is it that we take so much of our philosophy, literature, math, etc., from the Greeks, and not Egyptians?	899