STFU of course you're trying to be argumentative. You love it.
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WOW. I am completely stunned that no one here realizes exactly how innovative and complex some ancient cultures were, even by our standards today. Jesus. Do you not understand how developed ancient Greece was? Or Rome? Egypt? Mesopotamia? Without those cultures, we would be nothing. They developed astonomy, mathematics, chemistry
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You mentioned chemistry. Prior to the afore-mentioned 1773 chemical revolution, the science of chemistry was called
alchemy. The goal of the activity was to find direct routes to creating gold, silver and other such useful things.
Under that science, it was theorized that all things could be broken down into component elements. Those elements were determined to be Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Aether.
These are your "chemists" and that is pretty much the sum of their work from the beginning of civilization through 1773.
Good enough for sugarpop. It goes on the list and anybody who doesn't think that's
chemistry has an ignorance to be stunned by.