Ancient Roman and Greek empires had genius scientists, philosophers, architects, engineers, and all other intellectuals that somehow were even more intelligent than modern ones, because they had to invent everything by themselves. In the same time, they also had degenerates who were responsible for tortures, orgies, pederasty, prostitution, eunuchs, and all the other perversions that still exist today. If you think about it, evolution doesn't exist. We still have intelligent Vs degenerates. The only difference is degenerates are winning, because the intelligent are pacifists now.