A few more things that I think we missed.
Rammed earth construction, government run lottery - ancient China
Astrology-Sumeria
Writing - Sumeria
baker's dozen
Wigs
bronze
jewelry making
fortune telling by many methods
battery and light bulb - ancient Egypt
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It referred to the heaths- the areas where heather was growing wild. Meaning most of the Countryside. When the Romans were trying to convert the Celts to Christianity, they focused on the city people first. They could get to more of them at one time. The other people - that lived out...