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[sime42]

You forgot the Greeks and the Romans, what did the Romans  ever do for us?

Oh yeah. The Romans didn't do much for us did they? Apart from giving us rabbits.

[Khriss]

10 minutes ago, sime42 said:

10 hours ago, 5thelement said:

You forgot the Greeks and the Romans, what did the Romans  ever do for us?

Oh yeah. The Romans didn't do much for us did they? Apart from giving us rabbits.

Sweet chestnut. 

Baths. 

Sewerage systems. 

Chariots. 

Literary concepts. 

Legal precepts. 

Sculpture. 

Marcus Aurelius. 

Under floor heating. 

 

K

 

[Khriss]

( by the  way, Iraq had universities whilst  London was a swamp) 

[sime42]

Sweet chestnut. 
Baths. 
Sewerage systems. 
Chariots. 
Literary concepts. 
Legal precepts. 
Sculpture. 
Marcus Aurelius. 
Under floor heating. 
 
K
 

We're on the same page mate, I was being ironic!

[sime42]

Iraq is not called the Cradle of Civilization for nothing. We would have struggled to subjugate a third of the world without some of the important things invented there.

5 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know Were Invented In Iraq - Preemptive Love

PREEMPTIVELOVE.ORG

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Iraq has an incredibly rich and unique history. Istanbul, Rome, Paris, New York, Tokyo—centers of culture rise and fall, but there’s only one Cradle of Civilization, and that’s what we today call Iraq. A long…

[sime42]

Iraq is not called the Cradle of Civilization for nothing. We would have struggled to subjugate a third of the world without some of the important things invented there.

5 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know Were Invented In Iraq - Preemptive Love

PREEMPTIVELOVE.ORG

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Iraq has an incredibly rich and unique history. Istanbul, Rome, Paris, New York, Tokyo—centers of culture rise and fall, but there’s only one Cradle of Civilization, and that’s what we today call Iraq. A long…

All that from a Muslim country too.

[Khriss]

17 minutes ago, sime42 said:

25 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Sweet chestnut. 
Baths. 
Sewerage systems. 
Chariots. 
Literary concepts. 
Legal precepts. 
Sculpture. 
Marcus Aurelius. 
Under floor heating. 
 
K
 

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We're on the same page mate, I was being ironic!

I know 😉 plus modern cavalry tactics, and larks tongues. K

[the village idiot]

The Arab world used to be the epicenter of progress in mathematics and scientific inquiry until some 'enlightened' and influential cleric decided that it would displease Allah to continue down this path.

 

Science became a sin.

 

The whole region has been set back centuries because it's population has been ordered to stay on the right side of a non-existent entity.

 

Tragic really.

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, Khriss said:

Sweet chestnut. 

Baths. 

Sewerage systems. 

Chariots. 

Literary concepts. 

Legal precepts. 

Sculpture. 

Marcus Aurelius. 

Under floor heating. 

 

K

 

Yea , all right but,  apart from that what have the Romans actually done for us ?😁

[donnk]

As the learned Mr Ricky Gervais said,

 

burn all books everywhere and then come back in 1000 years and science books would be still be the same.

 

Works off fiction, bible, quaran, torah etc etc would be a distant memory.

 

Planet be a much better place for it.