Similarly, (your public school teacher wont tell you this, but..) approx. 1100 years ago when the Vikings first came to America...
They brought with them beads, jewellery, leather clothes, leather shoes, canoes, small axes, bows and arrows, and other such items to trade with.
500 years later, the Vikings were forced out and were but a memory, leaving all their inventions behind them, and getting little to no credit for anything they contributed.
Ecc 1:9 NLT - 9 History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.