ChineseKahanist,
Pretty much everything was invented/ made much better by proto-Jews and early Israel. We INVENTED the alphabet, we INVENTED early philosophy, we INVENTED organized religion [sure, people were worshipping goats and cows n stuff, but we had a organized set of laws, regulations, and day-to-day living] and we modified governmental systems, which thanks to the trade routes, would, along with everything else mentioned, travel west to the Greeks so they can claim they invented it.