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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Nah. You’re just limited by your education that taught you only about Europe. For example, I was lied to in school when I was taught that Romans were so genius to have invented aqueducts. What a crock. Aqueducts were first used by the Indus Valley civilization 2500 years before the Romans. The Romans surely improved on the concept, but it was all derivative.
Sanchi in India was built around the same time that the Ancient Greeks built the Parthenon. Parts of it is still standing. Columns, temples, statues, religious shit. Whoopty doo.
Anyhow, none of it matters. None of this stuff comes close to the Great Pyramids.
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Besides, didn't the Romans use mostly Greek slaves, freedmen and citizens to do the real inventing & engineering? Without the Greeks, what would the Roman Empire have been? Roman civilization is mostly derivative of Hellenistic. Greek civilization owes a debt to Egyptians and Phoenicians and also the Minoans, who may or may not have been Greeks. Herodotus told us so. And everyone owes a debt to the Sumerians, who invented modern western civilization.