text: Greek civilization was over around 100 B.C.? Greek culture was dominant in the Eastern Mediterranean well until the Arab invasions of the 600s. Some of the greatest philosophers, pagan, Jewish and Christian, lived in Alexandria, Egypt, to name one centre of Greek culture, in fact the predominant one, until it was taken by the Arabs in 641 AD. Several Christian theologians were from Alexandria, like Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a theologian and Church Father, c. 297 to 373.
  
  There is less than a thousand years from 600 to 1100 AD, the zenith of Arab knowledge. It has been on the decline since then, and not rebounded. Rehashing the old stories about algebra and gunpowder serves to deflect from the fact that modern science has been the result of European and Western endeavours for the last four hundred years. All the technologies used today were born there. We are talking about the here and now.