Which contributed more to the world ancient Greece or Rome
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Ammogeddon
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Rome was the more successful empire. Greece was the more influential civilisation.
Artoris
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I have heard something similar
I think it was Greeks invented eroticism and Romans involved woman in it
Trogdor1123
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Rome for sure, but with out Greece and it's impacts it would have been massively reduced.
Look at the number of Roman Roads still in use.
Look at the number of Roman Roads still in use.
ForAcademicPurposes
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The burning of the Library of Alexandria is one of the greatest cultural disasters in human history.
The destruction was the loss of irreplacable knowledge (200,000 scrolls). It was not just a library but the world's first major research institution. Scholars from across the Mediterranean came to study.
Thanks, Julius.
The destruction was the loss of irreplacable knowledge (200,000 scrolls). It was not just a library but the world's first major research institution. Scholars from across the Mediterranean came to study.
Thanks, Julius.
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Hari Seldon
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Rome by a huge margin. I don't know if anyone would even know about Greece if the Romans hadn't massively strengthened Europe to withstand the various empires surrounding it.
Wildebeest
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Ancient Greek texts and art are mostly important to us because they were important to the Romans. The Greeks themselves didn't come up with all their ideas themselves. A lot of them studied in the capitals of learning at the time such as Heliopolis and Babylon.
RJMacready73
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Alexander would like a word, yes I know he was a Macedonian but technically still a greek and everyone has heard of him
spookyfish
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Pretty much how I was going to say it.
Unknown Soldier
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The correct answer is both
Also people forget Ancient Egypt exists, they invented paper
Also people forget Ancient Egypt exists, they invented paper
AJUMP23
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A real answer is Rome. The modern republic is based on Roman laws with some influence from Greek democracy. But the senate and executives are essentially Roman. Bicameral congress is a compromise in developing of governing bodies.
Roman roads and leadership as well as armies and establishment were around for around 1000 years.
I think you could argue Greeks influenced culture Rome influenced government.
Latin and Greek influence language fairly equally. I would give the edge to Greek for the introduction of Vowels.
Roman roads and leadership as well as armies and establishment were around for around 1000 years.
I think you could argue Greeks influenced culture Rome influenced government.
Latin and Greek influence language fairly equally. I would give the edge to Greek for the introduction of Vowels.
Donald mac Ronald
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kevboard
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there never was "THE Library of Alexandria". there were at least 2 big ones, only 1 of them had a fire, neither of them actually were destroyed. the one that burned got restored.
was some of its inventory lost? yes... but most of the stuff that burned down wasn't even unique to that library. it was either copies of scrolls or scrolls that had copies in other libraries.
there never was a big event that erased hundreds of thousands of important pieces of knowledge. in reality, most of it was just lost over decades and centuries of people letting it get lost, by either letting it rot somewhere or losing interest and misplacing it.
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Trunx81
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Greece was the basis, Rome improved upon all of it plus advanced military.
Without Greece, Rome wouldn´t even have been founded. Greece attacked Troy, trojan hero Aeneas fled to Italy and was the ancestor of Romulus and Remus. So basically an immigrant is the source of all of our modern world. Eat that, Donald!
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Greece was the basis, Rome improved upon all of it plus advanced military.
Without Greece, Rome wouldn´t even have been founded. Greece attacked Troy, trojan hero Aeneas fled to Italy and was the ancestor of Romulus and Remus. So basically an immigrant is the source of all of our modern world. Eat that, Donald!
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Bitmap Frogs
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People always forget the third great civilization, the Muslim golden age.
JimmyRustler
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The correct answer.
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The Roman Empire was more important, because they not only brought the accomplishments of Greeks culture to the rest of Europe but also spread Christianity, Roman law, the Latin language which was the source of world languages like French, Portuguese and Spanish, etc.
But people don't even believe they could cut and stack stone!
AJUMP23
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Ironically Hellenism was helped by the Roman expansion. Alexander, taught by a Greek, conquered the world, his generals then take over various regions and install Greek culture. Rome comes along and as long as you pay your tribute they leave you alone for the most part. But their world contributions to cultural influences were lesser than the Greeks. But the roman republic is important.
Senua
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I see roman structure on my journey to work, Porchester Castle is on my route which is a Roman fort. Alot of of Saxon and Norman stuff built on top of it but you can still see the roman bricks
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Hypereides
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Greece, imo. The Greeks laid and formulated the modern foundations of Mathematics which we largely see and still denote today. Without that foundation, we may have not mapped out and attained large part of the progress in various fields of science and arts. It seeps and cascades into structures of fields adjacent to itself such as linguistics and music in subtle ways .
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BennyBlanco
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Lock the thread we're done here
MilkyJoe
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Done in one!!
diffusionx
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Greece and it's an easy choice.
look at how much the Romans took from Greece and how they saw themselves tied to the Greeks in their origin (Aeneas as their progenitor who fled Troy after the war). Rome's primary contribution was spreading this civilization so far beyond the Mediteranean to Britain, the Danube, Iberia, etc., and they did it in part through the use of a bureaucratic system that was then adopted by the Catholic Church and spread far and wide.
look at how much the Romans took from Greece and how they saw themselves tied to the Greeks in their origin (Aeneas as their progenitor who fled Troy after the war). Rome's primary contribution was spreading this civilization so far beyond the Mediteranean to Britain, the Danube, Iberia, etc., and they did it in part through the use of a bureaucratic system that was then adopted by the Catholic Church and spread far and wide.
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Angry_Megalodon
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Both, but Rome is derivative of Ancient Greece, so the objective answer is Greece, craddle of philosophy and rational thinking.
diffusionx
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it's incorrect to say that Rome is derivative of Ancient Greece, although obviously it was heavily influenced by it after it conquered it.
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Sardaukarama
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Another obligatory Life of Brian Roman scene (one of the best movies of all time imo)
What if Monty Python made Homers Odyssey
What if Monty Python made Homers Odyssey
RCX
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There's a chance I was joking when I wrote my post. But thanks for the history lesson.uhhhh... maybe look up Spartan culture and rethink that lol.
the easiest way to increase your status in Sparta was to become the lover of the older guys
so, depends where you'd have been in the roman empire.
NeoIkaruGAF
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Greece would possibly have destroyed itself with internal conflicts if Rome hadn't entered the picture. The greatest culture in the world can only get so far if it's not spread through military expansion and conquest.
True, as Horace said, Rome learnt much of philosophy and art from Greece. But we don't really remember or praise Rome for it's poetry or art today, do we? What Rome left was law, order, infrastructure, architecture. Practical things that still echo in the modern world. You can live all your life without the foggiest idea of Plato's philosophy, but if you live in a semi-civilized country, there's sure to be something that influences your life that ultimately comes from the Romans.
And I'm writing this with Ovid's Metamorphoses on the desk right in front of me.
True, as Horace said, Rome learnt much of philosophy and art from Greece. But we don't really remember or praise Rome for it's poetry or art today, do we? What Rome left was law, order, infrastructure, architecture. Practical things that still echo in the modern world. You can live all your life without the foggiest idea of Plato's philosophy, but if you live in a semi-civilized country, there's sure to be something that influences your life that ultimately comes from the Romans.
And I'm writing this with Ovid's Metamorphoses on the desk right in front of me.
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Brigandier
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Another obligatory Life of Brian Roman scene (one of the best movies of all time imo)
What if Monty Python made Homers Odyssey
Such a great scene.
