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Topic: Ancient Civilizations Posted: 18-Nov-2005 at 19:58 |
I was undecided between Rome and Athens. I love them both. Both were highly influencial in the way they have shaped our civilization. But I had to go for Greece. The intelectual heritage is just overwhelming.
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Posted: 18-Nov-2005 at 16:32 |
I voted for the greeks because they developed many of the sciences we use today i.e. philosophy, history as well as governmental systems and architecture. Besides the fact that they had great influence on other civilizations; romans, middle east through successor states. Their alphabet influenced romans through etruscans, hence their effect on the english language also.
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Posted: 18-Nov-2005 at 10:26 |
Originally posted by Rome
Rome by far is the greatest empire that ever existed because it was a military
power and there is no way that the ancient mesoamerians or Egypt could
compeat with Romes military power even though Rome had problems of
its own. The legions of Rome may have lost battles of its own but only
because of bad luck and trechery the first century A.D.
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having the geatest militart power doesnt make a great civilization
the ones with less military usually are the ones with the greater civilization and are usually conquered by lesser civilizations
i voted Egypt
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Posted: 10-Nov-2005 at 23:11 |
Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter
Mesopotamia the first civilization and with graet effect |
OF COURSE
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Posted: 10-Oct-2005 at 01:46 |
Egyptians all the way
it did survive for thousands of years they had to have done somthing right
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Posted: 08-Oct-2005 at 13:08 |
"I voted for the Greeks. Every high culture could come up with writing systems, administration , architecture or huge military, but none of those left as big as an impression on the modern world than the ideas developed in ancient greece, in terms of philosophy, democracy etc."
True, my will be the Roman and Greeks.
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Posted: 08-Oct-2005 at 10:30 |
I voted for the Greeks. Every high culture could come up with writing
systems, administration , architecture or huge military, but none of
those left as big as an impression on the modern world than the ideas
developed in ancient greece, in terms of philosophy, democracy etc.
My favourite are still the ancient mesoamericans, though. Those weren't
the greatest civilizations, but the most fascinating, imho.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 23:46 |
Rome because:
It took us 1800 years to rediscover or remake most what the west has lost.
Some thinks like medical sciences, tools, most architecture, Coliseum, SELF OPENING DOORS, some machinery and act took 2000 years to rediscover or remake.
The Romans had access to goods from around the world, a mail system that was faster than anything before the 20th Century, very well maintained roads, unrivaled security, central heating, police and fire departments, large amounts of public entertainment, and more.
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Posted: 04-Oct-2005 at 10:44 |
India for being the oldest civilization n also the oldest continuing civilization in the world.
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Posted: 08-Aug-2005 at 16:10 |
Ancient Greek Gave rome much of its ideas, so my vote would be Greco-Roman.
Or British.
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Posted: 08-Aug-2005 at 03:50 |
Persians created the first system of satrapies (provinces) and postal systems. They created a real administration in an empire, an actual efficient form of government, it was light years ahead of anything the world had yet seen, especially since they were the first "real" empire. The amazing thing is that all of this was accomplished in such a large empire, spanning across most of the known world while housing inhabitants of so many different ethnicities and cultures. The world had never witnessed such a large empire before this one. Messages would be delivered in a matter of 1 to 2 days using the royal highways. I even read somewhere that the King would impose a taxing system based on percentage of income of land. The conquered lands were deemed to belong to the King himself, and therefore the inhabitants of that land would have to pay a fixed percentage of the income from the land to the King. This would make it beneficial for the King to help improve the land, which in turn benefits himself, as well as the inhabitant.
Don't forget the fact that power was vested in the royal bloodline for appoximately 300 years. Many later empires were unable to maintain rule for so many generations. The achaemenid empire fascinates me...I could keep going but I wont.
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Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 23:08 |
India we have given the world a vast amount of knowledge used even today.
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Posted: 25-Jul-2005 at 09:48 |
The Chinese were a very advanced civilisation in ancient times so i would have to vote for them...
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Posted: 21-Jul-2005 at 10:46 |
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me too
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Posted: 18-Jul-2005 at 02:52 |
voted rome
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Posted: 18-Jul-2005 at 02:47 |
Rome was the military power of the ancient world,and Greece the great
center of knowledge(a lot of which they acquired from the Egyptians and
the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent.)Which is the foundation of
Western civilization with contributions from other great nations and
their heritages.A generalization of course but accurate I feel.
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Posted: 15-Jul-2005 at 09:58 |
What about the HITTITES? They formed the first peace treaty of humanity, Kadesh with Egyptians. They expanded their civilization from Black Sea to Syria, from Troy to eastern Anatolia. Hail the Hittites!
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Posted: 15-Jul-2005 at 08:46 |
Phoenicians! They invented alphabet and were sailing to Equatorial Africa when the rest didn't know anything.
Imagine writing in hyeroglyphs?
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Posted: 07-Jul-2005 at 14:22 |
Voted for Egyptian.
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Posted: 04-Jul-2005 at 10:02 |
Mesopotamia the first civilization and with graet effect
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