@YoMomz That's a good way of putting it, although I'd say they survived in more ways than just conceptually, given their obsession with ethnic purity.

It clearly paid off though, their religion-driven ruthlessness and their accumulated knowledge has allowed them to outwit and subvert every other culture.
In the end it's our fault for submitting to them (Christians especially) which is why we're the ones facing extinction and not these terror bird dinosaurs.