That is a load of BS. Every civilization builds on previous ones. It is also about interconnections more than anything. Northern Europe was full of hunter-gatherers and primitive farmers at the time, while the people were mostly the same. Violence was everywhere, including Europe. Did the genetics dramatically change? No it didn't.
The people residing in the fertile crescent weren't ever smart by Northern European standards
Sure, I'm convinced that you have data on that from, say 1000 AD? 2000BC? You're making assertions based on nothing. Inbreeding has been common in various European areas as well, royal families, even the neanderthals. There's no reason to think that ancient Sumerian culture did things similarly to today in that regard. An no, coming up with nuclear physics does not really indicate any intrinsic superior intelligence of the whole population, when you build on what has been discovered before. Besides, many of the people who did some of the greatest contributions to just that have genetic markers from the Middle-East. Jews still do.
The first calculations of the size of the earth did not come from Northern Europe, it came from Southern Europe/Middle-East. Northern Europeans did not contribute that much until the last 500 years or so. If we checked overall contributions around 1000 AD we would probably agree with the Chinese, who thought themselves vastly superior to everyone else. It has everything to do with favorable environment, culture, trade connections vs isolation, and picking up on what was invented before.
That is a load of BS. Every civilization builds on previous ones. It is also about interconnections more than anything. Northern Europe was full of hunter-gatherers and primitive farmers at the time, while the people were mostly the same. Violence was everywhere, including Europe. Did the genetics dramatically change? No it didn't.
Sure, I'm convinced that you have data on that from, say 1000 AD? 2000BC? You're making assertions based on nothing. Inbreeding has been common in various European areas as well, royal families, even the neanderthals. There's no reason to think that ancient Sumerian culture did things similarly to today in that regard. An no, coming up with nuclear physics does not really indicate any intrinsic superior intelligence of the whole population, when you build on what has been discovered before. Besides, many of the people who did some of the greatest contributions to just that have genetic markers from the Middle-East. Jews still do.
The first calculations of the size of the earth did not come from Northern Europe, it came from Southern Europe/Middle-East. Northern Europeans did not contribute that much until the last 500 years or so. If we checked overall contributions around 1000 AD we would probably agree with the Chinese, who thought themselves vastly superior to everyone else. It has everything to do with favorable environment, culture, trade connections vs isolation, and picking up on what was invented before.