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You are so true about anglo-centricism. I dont recall the name, but one indian mathematician travelleled to iraq (during its golden age) where he discussed mathematics with then iraqi scholars and his works are further translated which than reached europeans as arabic numerals.

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And to this day the English language calls those numerals the Arabic numerals. How much more acknowledgment could you expect? There's a lot to say about anglo-centrism, this is not part of it.

Though the (misguided)point is that during the "dark ages" things were great elsewhere, calling an Indian invention "Arabic numerals" because that's how they got introduced to Europe is rather Anglo-centric.

That might be, but they did get substantially changed in form in Arab countries, and what we call Arabic numbers is western Arab script.

Arabic numerals spread around 1000 AD, the collapse was 1100 BC. That said, Mesopotamia actually did survive the Bronze Age collapse.

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