Sumerians had such great enthusiasm for jewelry and such high artistic taste and skill with it that their influence on the jewelry of other cultures was strong. They handed their art down to the Assyrians and Babylonians. These in turn brought it to the Persians. The Scythians to the north and Hittites to the west were also impressed. The Scythians eventually introduced Sumerian jewelry culture to the distant Chinese wedding bands , while the Persians took it to Greece, and the Phoenicians spread it throughout the Mediterranean world. None of these widespread cultures made significant improvements in either the art or craft through all these centuries, but at least they kept them alive and adapted them to their own forms.