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That is a very narrow view of history. Not incorrect, necessarily, but also not the full picture. This is only correct if you're looking at history from that very western-centric lens that starts with Egypt (for some reason), then goes into Greece, Rome, and then 1-2-skip a few, and a neat little line into the Renaissance and then the "age of exploration". But that wasn't most of the world, that was pretty much just Europe.
Well, it is a quote by Kurt Vonnegut, born, lived, died in the USA, so there's that.
I meant the comment above me, not the Vonnegut quote. Dude was pretty cosmopolitan