Ancient Civilizations

Hi Winterhaze,
very good poll, but every member will vote for their onw region.
Every ancient civilization was important on their own era and region.
Just an observation, on the mesoamerican area, the Mayan culture was not contemporary to the aztecs, at least not the splendorous mayan civilization that built Copan, Chichen Itza, etc.
The aztecs and the Incas were contemporary civilizations but too far away to interact or influx on the other.
The ancient mesoamerican civilizations were the Olmecs and Teotihuacans that later on influx on the Mayans, Toltecs,Zapotecs, Mixtecs and Aztecs.

Every culture developed their own writting system, calendar and social politic.
Greek's apportation to the actual socio-political is undenieable. However, the other cultures developed their own systems that allowed their convivence.

Regards

I agree with Hueyi Tlahtoani on this one. All votes in this poll will be rather "emotional". Not necessarily for each voter's region, maybe by passion or interest aswell.

I, for one, cast my vote for Ancient Egypt. I admire all the other ancient civs, but egyptian history really touches my heart, you know...

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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I believe Mesopotamian Civilazation has had the greatest effect on the world today. They are the "cradle of civilazation". They are the onces who build the first cities, streets, water canals, postal system, farm land and so on.

     i vote others. The khmer empire by far is the greatest empire in southeast asia and possibly in the world in my opinion. The khmer are master stone builders, and it shows for angkor wat and the many other temples built. It's a fine example of what human can accomplish, and take into consideration that this was nearly eight centuries ago. There were no heavy machinery, although ancient archictecture didn't use it either. Moreover, Angkor Wat is geometricly constructed, as well as Bayon within Angkor Thom ( surrounding wall ), the capital when Jayavarman Vll reign. At that time, Angkors golden year, the empire streched as far as Lao, Vietnam, and Thailand. Phimai, Phnom Rung, Prasat Muang Tam can be found in Thailand and Wat phu can be found in Lao.

                              Satellite image of Angkor

(center left ) the smaller square with the black outline is angkor wat. The black outline is it's surrounding moat. Angkor Wat is in the center. The square above Angkor Wat is Angkor Thom which is a wall surrounding of the capital. The brown dot in the center is Bayon.

 

 

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ok, now everybody who replied above state where there originally from......see any similarities

Voted for Egyptian.

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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voted rome

The Chinese were a very advanced civilisation in ancient times so i would have to vote for them...