Nairobi — Although we might not think of calling these fathers of Western thought Afro-centrist, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates all acknowledged the debt owed by Greece to Egypt.
The assessment of Ancient Greece as an impromptu starting point of Western civilization therefore seems to contradict the awe held for Egypt by the Greeks, who borrowed heavily from Egyptian art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, medicine and religion.
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