How much of Greek Civilization was ripped off from Egypt

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>>2240001

A large portion of Greek philosophy (really, more stuff like astronomy and math) was ripped right out of older Egyptian and Babylonian texts. More of it is Babylonian though.

>>2240349
To continue, the moral philosophy and civilization was "Greek" although intellectual tradition in and of itself was ripped off.

>>2240001
Egypt was one of several civilizations that were using columns in architecture long before the Greeks, so that's one possible route of technological spread.

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Egypt had a hand (not directly to the Greeks) in the formation of the alphabet.

>>2240384
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Civilisations don't rip off from each other in anything essential, because the core of what makes a civilisation what it is is that it needs to have a soul of its own. Greek soul is very different from Egyptian, even opposite in many ways.

Any inspiration civilisations take from each other is necessarily superficial, it concerns form rather than essence.

Just because the Egyptians weren't "black" doesn't mean they didn't influence Greece. Look at the similarities between early Greek sculpture and Egyptian statues for one. They were not very distant and it would be more bizarre if Egypt had no influence in Greece honestly, they themselves being influenced by Mesopotamia.