>>509196522>AlgebraI'll give you this one, even if it was building on the shoulders of non-sober societies.
>AstronomyBeer sodden Babylonians and Egyptians, Wine sodden greeks (for whom the study is named)
>ArchitectureLiterally what? Are you seriously trying to claim architecture didn't exist and wasn't studied prior to the 7th century AD? Fuck right off, too many predecessors here to even list.
>VaccinesBeer sodden Brit.
>Surgical InstrumentsWut? Surgical instruments are prehistoric, so I suppose it's technically possible whoever made the first flint knife hadn't had anything fermented yet.
>Modern HygieneNo matter how you define this it's definitely not from a sober society. Pasteur? French. Lister? Brit. Semmelweis? Hungarian.
>Fountain PensI'll give you this one, too.
>GardeningAbsolutely fuck right off, agriculture predates your dumb little heresy by millennia.
>Checking and BankingRomans had Praescriptiones in the first century BC.
>ToothbrushesEither the really, really ancient Egyptians or Chinese, predating arab conquests by thousands of years.
>CoffeeI'll give you this one as well.
>ClocksNot by any standard, not sundials (ancient Egypt), not waterclocks (ancient Egypt, Greece, China), and not mechanical clocks (Europe, contested as to where first)