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And where are these people NOW? India/Pakistan were the center of the Vedic world, and now they are just poor, illiterate, 3rd-world countries. Same with China and their long list of accomplishments IN THE PAST. What ever happened?

As for the Vedas, it looks as though a nuclear war ended those civs about 15,000 years ago. What you speak of is the remnants.

The Assyrians LOVED the number 60 - and we see it today as the stupid number of minutes and seconds - but they are dead and gone. Who is the innovators TODAY?

There has NEVER been, in all of written history, a civilization that was a leader at one point - and then became and also-ran, and THEN became a leader AGAIN. This is true of the Asians - China AND India, Romans, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, Turks, Slavs, Russians, Norse ...
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