Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt?

Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by kissickas on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:23PM (#12421276)

I have no idea where I heard that fact - only remember "trivia" from friends in elementary school telling me that the Nile is the only river that flows north, daddy-longlegs are the most poisonous spiders but their mouths are too small to bite humans, etc.

I'm not sure if the anecdote in the beginning is a true one but it says it takes place in Hefei, so I'm not sure it's a particularly American piece of misinformation.

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by dogma1138 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:28PM (#12421301)

Don't know never heard that fact, especially considering that rivers that flow north in Europe are quite common since the norther part of Europe is still rebounding from the last large ice age and it's overall at a lower elevation than southern Europe where you also get the large mountain ranges.

So famous rivers like the Sine, Elbe, Oder etc. all flow "north".

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by FreeFull on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:43AM (#12422768)

Vistula too. It might actually be harder to find major rivers that flow "south".

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by Jedd on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:12AM (#12423759)

Aside: ages back I asked an arachnologist friend about the origin of this myth.

As far as he could determine, some researcher was once asked on some random TV interview what the most poisonous spider was, and responded that no one knew, and that it may well be the daddy long legs. From that an entire generation of internet consumers now believe they are.

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