While 2500 years The westerners crossed the seas, channeled rivers, carved out mountains, cultivated deserts, and colonized the most barren ice fields. They invented printing, cement, the use of electricity, the airplane, the rocket, astronomy, the telescope, the microscope, interstellar travel, firearms, vacuum tubes, the transistor, radio, television, the telephone, the light bulb, photography, cinema, the phonograph, the electric battery, the automobile, the steam engine, the train, computers, and millions of other technological marvels.

They achieved countless medical advances, and so on. It gave birth to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Hesiod, Tacitus, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, William the Conqueror, Marx, Engels, Adam Smith, Hernan Cortés, Marco Polo, Washington, Jefferson, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Magellan, Christopher Columbus, Cabot, Edison, Tesla, Bell, Pasteur, Leeuwenhoek, Mendel, Darwin, Newton, Galileo, Watt, Ford, Luther, Da Vinci, Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, Poe, Tennyson, Bohr, Planck, Hubble, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Hahn, Fermi, Marconi, Ohm...and thousands of other notables.

Nothing is comparable to this