>>520611397
Modern civilization was created at least eight dozen times by white people over the last 20 thousand years, but the problem for why it only "took flight" when it crossed the atlantic to get a fresh Re-Start in America after sweeping away the spear chucking animals, is because of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBpQiJt3MUQ
Wasting time on making a machine to track the stars is irrelevant when the ultimate in civilization is merely picking up a sword and a spear, and getting really good at using it to kill people.
So yeah, scholars made modern civilization, as you'd call it, 20 thousand years ago and brought the machines with them as they sailed to new continents.
I'm not that impressed with the object, it's just a bunch of gears that track where objects are in the sky. The hard part was just believing you could do it, and then doing it.
A king ordered it to be made, they were made, and no industry could automate that so it never falls away.