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>>18090628
>>18090657
So what? They discovered cement hundreds of years before the Germanics through contact/common ancestrality with Middle Easterners.

>Cement, chemically speaking, is a product that includes lime as the primary binding ingredient, but is far from the first material used for cementation. The Babylonians and Assyrians used bitumen (asphalt or pitch) to bind together burnt brick or alabaster slabs. In Ancient Egypt, stone blocks were cemented together with a mortar made of sand and roughly burnt gypsum (CaSO4 ยท 2H2O), which is plaster of Paris, which often contained calcium carbonate (CaCO3)

>In the Archaic phase of ancient Greek art, the Orientalizing period is the cultural and art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when there was a heavy influence from the more advanced art of the Ancient Near East. The main sources were Akkadia, Aramea, as well as Phoenicia and Egypt. With the spread of Phoenician civilization by Carthage and Greek colonisation into the Western Mediterranean, these artistic trends also influenced the Etruscans and early Ancient Romans in the Italian peninsula

>Despite the popularity of Ancient Greek culture in the west, Ancient Greek culture is generally seen as having little importance for Indo-European studies due to the heavy influence of Pre-Greek and Near Eastern cultures, which overwhelms what little Indo-European material can be extracted from it

>Greek religious concepts also have absorbed many of the beliefs and practices of earlier, nearby cultures, many influences came from the Near East, especially via Cyprus. Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BC, traced many Greek religious practices to Egypt and Phoenicia

>>18090644
I accept your defeat.
>>18080502
>Art
>architecture
In fact, the Eastern/Greek influence in this precedes the Renaissance itself.

>In the Archaic phase of ancient Greek art, the Orientalizing period is the cultural and art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when there was a heavy influence from the more advanced art of the Ancient Near East. The main sources were Akkadia, Aramea, as well as Phoenicia and Egypt. With the spread of Phoenician civilization by Carthage and Greek colonisation into the Western Mediterranean, these artistic trends also influenced the Etruscans and early Ancient Romans in the Italian peninsula

>Despite the popularity of Ancient Greek culture in the west, Ancient Greek culture is generally seen as having little importance for Indo-European studies due to the heavy influence of Pre-Greek and Near Eastern cultures, which overwhelms what little Indo-European material can be extracted from it

>Greek religious concepts also have absorbed many of the beliefs and practices of earlier, nearby cultures, many influences came from the Near East, especially via Cyprus. Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BC, traced many Greek religious practices to Egypt and Phoenicia