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complex question, simplified answer.
Humans throughout history didn't really think in terms of infinity and the application of science to conquer meat space. This is why hints at stuff like very basic calculus can be found in ancient china without them doing much with it. They just did math for the sake of it. Most of humanity lived in the abstract thought of being in a dome (notably Egyptians, middle easterners and jews), the greeks did a certain escape but were obsessed with the single human subject instead of looking to the stars and perceivable infinity, they created important seeds for later European christians to find as knowledgable middle easterners stored the work.
Ancient Greece and its child class fell, the latter falling to germanic tribes. A child of those germanic tribes were the nordics with the same symbols. Arguably the most important western symbol in their centre being Odin, figure for knowledge, wisdom and sorcrey/magic. Odin sacrificing anything for knowledge to dominate the titans.
Nordics still lived in an abstract dome but with a symbol like Odin in the centre they built ships and tools of traversal and started exploring, trading, settling and making the longest running parliament to exist, althing. Doing so in the image of Odin.
With Christianity later taking over europeans placed a twist on it from the judeo dome. Angels became creatures incomprehensible to us, god became the creator and infinity.
"God built us in his image and since he could create all this we could too" is then the most important mindset that the western world gets, Aquinas playing a key role which he built from reading the greeks. Bringing forth catholic natural philosophers building primarily on Aristotles work and finally magicians like Newton came into being. The west later going to the moon and creating a virtual reality.
Asians have done well in applications and research too as their abstract space isn't a dome. Some jews and middle-easterners too with god.
