Your assumption is that all great inventions of societal advancements were done by white European men and that's simply not true. For you, the history of North American began when the pilgrims landed. What came before it utterly irrelevant.
Scientists are still learning things from the Mayans. Another race you probably consider inferior and irrelevant.
The Maya, a civilization of Indigenous people in Central America, created a complex Mayan calendar and massive pyrami...
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Rather, I wonder where the United States would be today, if they hadn't prevented women and non-whites to be educated and fully participate in society for the first 200 years. I think a LOT of talent has been lost or underused over the centuries, because white men dominated European history, and their accomplishments are not taught in today's classrooms.
The reason why you know nothing of the achievements of other non-white civilizations is because all of your history books were written by white men, who only cared about the achievements of other white men, and who largely discounted other contributions to culture because they didn't make them.