The prevailing thought in my head while reading this was not simply just the appalling extent of the erasure, but the fact that it has innocuously expanded and its narratives still stand today. While learning history in school, the innovations made during the Scientific Revolution were touted as "the best of their time" - was it to assert western supremacy, or are we synonymizing innovation for the best? If it's the latter, it is a benign mistake that ultimately perpetuates the petty goals of erasure in history.