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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, PP, you obviously missed the National Geographic's tour of 1001 Inventions:

http://www.1001inventions.com/discover
From the 7th century onwards, men and women of different faiths and cultures built on knowledge from ancient civilisations making breakthroughs that have left their mark on our world. Arab, Persian, Indian, Turkish, North African, Spanish, Sicilian and other nationalities and cultures formed this large area of Muslim Civilisation that included men and woman scholars of Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sabean, Hindu and other faiths.

[b]Knowledge from Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian and Roman civilisations was highly prized in the Muslim Civilisation. Scholars advanced science by building upon ancient wisdom, making breakthroughs that have had a huge but mostly unknown influence on our world[/b].

This ‘golden age of discovery’ took place during the so-called ‘dark ages’ of Europe.

The Arabs invented the first camera:
Ibn Al-Haytham’s EyeScura[/quote]

A huge but mostly unknown influence? Reminds me of when I open a jar and my kid says I loosened it for him.

Uh-huh.[/quote]

Being ignorant doesn't make you correct.  I feel sorry for your kid to have such an ignoramus for a parent.  Just b/c you weren't taught, don't remember, or facts were altered, doesn't mean the truth doesn't exist.

Cars were mentioned as a European or WASP invention.  
"In 1864, Siegfried Marcus created the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart... But his place in history was all but erased by the Nazis during World War II. Because Marcus was of Jewish descent, the Nazi propaganda office ordered [b]his work to be destroyed, his name expunged from future textbooks, and his public memorials removed[/b]."

None of the cars would have been possible without this guy who invented the crankshaft.
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--j5NMev8oOE/Vr-Ic0lHGGI/AAAAAAAAAI4/KVPYrKdc8Oc/s1600/t%25C3%25A9l%25C3%25A9chargement%2B%25281%2529.jpg[/img]
[img]http://image.slidesharecdn.com/4strokeengine-100112052143-phpapp02/95/four-stroke-engine-22-728.jpg?cb=1263273745[/img]

Motorized boat:  http://www.muslimheritage.com/sites/default/files/islamic_automation_06.jpg
(You don't need cars for the desert when you had camels.)[/quote]

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