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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (525254)1/16/2004 5:22:00 PM
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You are correct. They were a trading people, astride the routes between the West and India, and the path to the caravan routes into China.

They assimilated much of that Eastern knowledge, and made the West aware of it in due course.

(Still, in astronomy and certain other fields, the flame of learning burned rather brightly... long before the West.)
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