Ragriav You should not use wikipedia as a credible source this is a copy and paste work .     Here are the real countries responsible for those inventions.     Moveable Type (earlier than Gutenberg)-Korea   Umbrella-Egypt   Scissors-Egypt   Chain pumps-Babylon   Crossbow-Greek   Dry-Docks-Greek   Paddle Wheel-Roman   Parachutes-France   Postal System-Persia   Arch Bridge-Greek   Water Clock-Egypt   Windmill-Persia     Determining the number of planets in the Solar System-Modern   The concept of the Atom-Greek/Modern   Democracy in the Mahajanapadas-Even school children should know Greeks are responsible for Democracy .Antis they just keep getting smarter . :rolleyes:  Discovered that the earth is round-Greek   The earth revolves around the sun-Greek   First to calculate the diameter of the earth-Greek   First to calculate the diameter of the moon-Greek     Even if you add up all those inventions by Chinese and Indians (even the ones invented by Whites) that list is still very shot list . Whites still made 90% of all scientific inventions and discoveries.