Ricardo Duchesne

And beginning in the 16th - 17th Century in Western Europe, no less! A mere 7500 years+ after Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley!

Definitely not geography, as the witnessed by the advent (or lack of) of herding aimals, agriculture, metalurgy, architecture, sciences, math, religion past animist, rule of law, goverment, market economy, money, philosophy, and the flippin wheel, all which were introduced to Europe from east of the Bosphorus.

But while that was happening elsewhere, Western Europe had the deightfully rough-hewn rocks of Stonehenge, a giant phallus carved in the side of a limestone hill, and leafy greens like lettuce and cabbage.... mmm, the smell of civilization beckoned... eventually,,,

PS: This meme was inspired by another I accidentally bumped into yet can't find now even though I thought I bookmarked it for an occasion like this. They used ancient Rome instead of Iran tho.

Oh, and writing,,,

Hey. That giant p**is is, like, a world wonder. Or something.

Cock Rock is cool!

I just redid that comment now (as seen below) with a meme added as a visual aid for those who forgot their history began with "Once upon a time, the Romans discovered us, and then..." while claiming they bent Space-Time and civilized Asia millenia before the Romans migrated west from it.

Aristocratic individualism is an oxymoron. There's nothing meritocratic about keeping it within a landed elite.

Also, a BUNCH of our science and logic came directly from non-Western research.