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"However, Can I refer you to one contribution that the Europeans received and used for over 600 years in Europe for the benefit of our Civilization"

Have you heard of the Roman physician Galen? His works were studied until the 19th century.

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Excellent addition to the thread. Hear Hear! But - as my article mentions -the works of Ancient Rome and Greece - The Great treasures of the world - were all but completely lost in Western Christendom by AD 1000. Hard to believe but it is true. They did not know of those works existence.

From the 11th century onwards, Latin translations of Islamic medical texts began to appear in the West, Among those was ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine and the the much earlier Work of Galen et al.

But they were received back to Europe - translated from Arabic.