(The Egyptians invented the pulley, incidentally.)

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    And as we know, Egyptians and much of the Ancient Semitic lands were advanced. All those empires didn’t fail because they were stupid societies, it was usually conquering armies, plagues, or a string of terrible leaders. The sciences held strong though, especially leading in mathematics and astronomy up until only recent—relative to how far back were looking.

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      Ancient Egypt specifically fell because of Rome, but it had a much better time at the early middle ages than a lot of other former roman provinces.