Philosophers, History is not what you think it is. What the fuck is up with your history?

Philosophy was born in ancient Greece. <br><br> • The ancient Greek Plato was heavily influenced by his teacher Socrates.<br> • Socrates was heavily influenced by his teacher Anaxagoras, and Anaxagoras was heavily influenced by Anaximander.<br> • Anaximander (who also invented the wheel) was heavily influenced by the ancient Persians such as Mardonius, and the Babylonians such as Nabonidus (Babylon was a center of learning a long time before ancient Greece; the famous library of Babylon was the portal to all other libraries in ancient Mesopotamia — as a result, it is a bad idea to say that ancient Greece was the “cradle of knowledge”, as it actually was ancient Sumer).<br> • The ancient Greeks were also heavily influenced by the Egyptians (e.g., Herodotus).<br> • Additionally, ancient Greece imported lots of Chinese silk and other goods, thus they knew of the Chinese, although they did not know of the details of the Chinese schools of thoughts and were not directly influenced by them.<br> • Ancient Greece gave rise to Rome. <br> • Ancient Rome came into contact with and was heavily influenced by the cultures of the Middle East such as the Phoenicians, Jews, and various other Semitic cultures of the Levant; so when Rome gave rise to Europe, those Middle Eastern influences came with it.<br> • Ancient Rome also came into contact with and was heavily influenced by ancient India, as The ancient History of India has clear evidence of the Indo-Roman trade relations (including the borrowing of the Indian game of chess that eventually became very popular in Europe via the Islamic nations of the Middle East).<br> • Ancient Rome had a few trading contacts (the Romans called them “the Seres”) with ancient China, although as noted these contacts were indirect (via various intermediaries between Rome and China) and very weak relative to the indirect contacts between ancient Rome and ancient India (for example, the famous Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, 23–79 AD — a strict empiricist that was skeptical of metaphysics — had no idea at all about ancient Chinese philosophy, he thought the Chinese were “not much more than uneducated and really stupid elephants”).<br> • The ancient Romans also had trading contacts with ancient Korea.<br> • So those ancient Indian influences on Europe came indirectly via ancient Rome, and those ancient Chinese and Korean influences on Europe came indirectly via the ancient Silk Road (so from China via the Persians, and from Korea via the Silk Road).<br> • Additionally, ancient and medieval Europe were also heavily influenced by the Islamic (i.e., Mohammedan) ancient Middle Eastern nations, so in turn ancient and medieval Europe inherited those influences from ancient Rome and ancient Greece and ancient Persia and ancient India and ancient China and ancient Korea (the paternal grandfather of the famous Islamic philosopher Averroës was a student of the famous Islamic philosopher Ibn-Bajja [also known as “Avempace”], and Ibn-Bajja was heavily influenced by the famous Islamic Persian philosopher Avicenna [also known as “Ibn-Sina”]).<br> • The Islamic world was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks (e.g., Alkindus), Persians (e.g., Avicenna), Indians (e.g., mathematics, chess), ancient Mesopotamia (e.g., the ancient Mesopotamians invented the wheel and the game of backgammon), and ancient Egypt (e.g., Alhazen).<br> • The ancient and medieval Christians of Europe had trading contacts with “the Moors” (a conglomeration of various ethnic groups of Islamic Africa, including black Africans, Arabs, and Berbers) along the southern coast of Europe (e.g., the Mediterranean port city of Toledo in Portugal was an important intellectual center of the Islamic “Moors” before they were conquered by the Christians; it was in “Toledo the Capital” where the largest amount of ancient texts were translated by the Moors), and — despite their historical animosity and violence and slavery — \\the ancient and medieval Christians of Europe (e.g., St. Thomas Aquinas) were heavily influenced by those Islamic contacts indirect influences, as well as the Islamic nations of the Middle East (e.g., the famous Christian philosopher Duns Scotus was heavily influenced by the famous Persian philosopher Avicenna).<br> • Ancient and medieval Europe also directly imported many things from ancient China, such as paper, playing cards, the compass, the rattle, porcelain, silk, noodles, and of course gunpowder.<br> • Ancient and medieval Europe and ancient and medieval Persia (modern-day Iran) came into contact with and were heavily influenced by the Mongols, the most famous of whom was Genghis Khan. So because the Mongols conquered ancient China and ancient Korea and exported Chinese and Korean cultural practices to Europe (e.g., the popular ancient Chinese game of Shogi), in turn ancient and medieval Europe were indirectly influenced by ancient China and ancient Korea via ancient Mongolia.<br> • From ancient India, the Europeans indirectly inherited lots of knowledge of arithmetic (e.g., the concept of “zero” and the decimal system), algebra (e.g., the terms “sine”, “cosine”, and “tangent”), geometry, and astronomy (which eventually helped to inspire Newton’s and Leibniz’s independent discoveries of calculus).<br> • Modern Europe was also heavily influenced by ancient and medieval sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., the Portuguese were heavily influenced by various West African cultures, and the ancient Ethiopians invented the sail).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by ancient Mesomerica (e.g., syphilis).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by ancient South America (e.g., potatoes).<br> • From modern East Asia, Europe inherited pork, apple, and grapes.<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern India (e.g., cotton clothing).<br> • Modern Europe inherited lots of new animals, plants, food, medicine, and cultural practices from ancient Australia and Oceania.<br> • The Enlightenment thinkers of modern Europe were heavily influenced by the “Cathay” (i.e., China) of Confucius, Lao-Tse, and other ancient Chinese philosophers (e.g., Voltaire and Quesnay).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern China (e.g., the Maoists).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by various African cultures (e.g., jazz).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by “the Arabic numeral system” (i.e., the “Hindu numeral system”) that was imported from ancient India via the Islamic world.<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by the ancient Middle Eastern monotheistic “religions of the book” (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; this is why the Enlightenment thinkers of modern Europe were heavily influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, but were not heavily influenced by the polytheistic ancient Chinese philosophers as the Enlightenment thinkers of modern Europe thought that the ancient Greeks were a lot closer to their “Judeo-Christian heritage” despite that ancient Greece and ancient Judea/Israel were no closer to modern Europe than ancient China was to modern Europe; for example, ancient Greece and ancient China were both located thousands of miles away from a typical university in modern Europe; ancient China is slightly closer).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by various ancient American indigenous cultures (e.g., Freudian psychoanalysis inherited the talking cure from the witch doctors of Peru).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern India (e.g., yoga).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern Japan (e.g., the Enlightenment thinkers of modern Europe were influenced by the isolationist policies of the JapaneseTokugawa shogunate; D.T. Suzuki).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern Africa (e.g., decolonial philosophers such as Fanon).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by the modern Middle East (e.g., modern European philosophers were influenced by traditional Islamic philosophy, modern Islamic philosophers such as Renan, and the Islamic State).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern Asia (e.g., modern European philosophers were influenced by Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern Oceania (e.g., the famous Austrian philosopher of language Fritz Mauthner wrote a book called “Mythology of All Races: Volume 8: African and Australian” [a.k.a. “Mythology of All Races: The Mythology of the British Colonies of Southeast Asia”]).<br> • Modern Europe was heavily influenced by modern South America (e.g., the famous German philosopher of History Theodor Mommsen wrote a book called “History of Rome: Volume 6: The Revolutionary Epoch” [a.k.a. “History of Rome: Volume 7: The Revolution in Rome: The Revolution in Rome and Italy: The Revolution in Spain and Africa: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy: The Revolution in Rome and Italy: The Revolution in Rome and Spain: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy: Sketch of the History of Rome Under the Emperors: Sketch of the History of Rome from A.D. 22 to 180: Sketch of History of Rome from the End of Republic to the Death of Constantine: Supplement to the History of Rome: From the Death of Commodus to the Death of Alexander Severus”] that discussed the ancient Romans’ relationship with ancient South America).<br> • So in short, the history of modern Europe, modern Asia, modern North Africa, modern Australia, modern South America, modern North America, and modern Oceania are all connected to this network of History that spans across the entire planet.<br><br>The post history of philosophers is not really very accurate when it comes to ancient civilizations aside from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.<br><br>Historically, philosophy as a method of inquiry