Thats what I am asking. What did they contribute that was so gigantic? Seems to me whites just took the best from each civilization and claimed they made it up.
Hell, pick one: mathematics, science, philosophy, religion, warfare, technology, agriculture, medicine, and on and on and on and on.
The West contributed a vast percentage of Mankind's knowledge in each of those areas, and more.
In many of those topical areas, Man would not have progressed to the Time of the West without one or more underlying precursor civilizations ( Egypt, China, India, et al).
Hell, folks in The West were still tribal and painting themselves blue and worshipping trees and worse, while some of those precursor civilizations were getting things started.
But, when The West's time came, it came on like gangbusters, and The West made up for a great deal of lost time, and ended-up excelling its predecessors, in both adaptation and evolution of precursor knowledge, and in pushing far beyond the boundaries of precursor knowledge into realms those others could not possibly imagine.
That's not hubris... it's merely a faithful macro-level overview of how the past millennia or so has panned out, and whom such developments favored, and where the credit for the new material and the adaptations belong.
Or so it seems to this observer.