What's your favorite culture, or one you really admire?

[Shimbiris]

That's incorrect. A common mistake many people make is they think the Romans & Greek city-states were Western Civilisations; it would be more accurate to view them as predecessors to the Western Civilisation that would come later.

Essentially, Western civilisation came after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and is a fusion of Latin/Roman institutions & Germanic culture/laws and Western European Christianity aka Catholicism. The Merovingian & Carolingian Empires were the origins of Western Civilisation.

This is accurate but most westerners, including several western scholars do not act like this and behave as though there is direct continuity between them and ancient East Meds.

 

[Saredo]

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I like France ( not the people), but I would’ve picked japan. For their preservation of culture, art. The tech and the beautiful landscapes.

 

[Shimbiris]

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I like France ( not the people), but I would’ve picked japan. For their preservation of culture, art. The tech and the beautiful landscapes.

Would you spare me?

 

[Saredo]

Would you spare me?

Of course. You give great fitness tips and you’re cool

 

[Clllam]

That's incorrect. A common mistake many people make is they think the Romans & Greek city-states were Western Civilisations; it would be more accurate to view them as predecessors to the Western Civilisation that would come later.

Essentially, Western civilisation came after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and is a fusion of Latin/Roman institutions & Germanic culture/laws and Western European Christianity aka Catholicism. The Merovingian & Carolingian Empires were the origins of Western Civilisation.

But the Roman and Greek contribution to their culture is too great. Germanics just assimilated and Christianity spread thanks to the Romans. Their influence was further amplified by the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

 

[Clllam]

The Chinese and the Indians might have something to say about that.

By Culture, the Greeks and Romans have obviously impacted the world a lot more than China or even India.

 

[liya]

I like learning about other cultures from HoA but that’s it

 

[Amk]

No culture they are all trash

 

[Clllam]

Indeed. The ruler of the Eritrean coast (either the Aksumite King or a predecessor to the medieval Bahr Negash) in the first century CE even spoke Greek and was supposedly very familiar with Greek philosophy and culture. Truly remarkable for them to have that much of a cultural spread in a pre-telephone, pre-internet, pre-modern shipping and planes world.



The funniest thing for me is when they wrestled Greece from the Ottomans and had a dopamine rush from the idea of seeing their "white" Greek brothers and ended up finding some people who seemed more culturally and physically like Turks and Arabs than like them. The heartbreak...

“[Europeans] had these exalted ideas—‘We’re going to run into Agamemnon and Pericles’—and they were disappointed by the Greeks,” Greene said. “There’s Europe and then there’s Europe, and this wasn’t the right Europe.”

What Recent Greek History Reveals About the Debt Crisis

The long-troubled relationship between modern Greeks and their Western European neighbors continues to affect debt negotiations today.

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When the heavyweights of your ‘people’ aren’t even from your race. I can’t believe some have the audacity to look down on African history with Islamic influences for not being ‘original’.

 

[The alchemist]

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I like France ( not the people), but I would’ve picked japan. For their preservation of culture, art. The tech and the beautiful landscapes.

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There is nothing wrong with liking the country you grew up in. Even if it's France.

Japan is a good pick. It's up there for me as well.

 

[kadaadi]

japan,iraq,greece,somali

 

[Saredo]

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There is nothing wrong with liking the country you grew up in. Even if it's France.

Japan is a good pick. It's up there for me as well.

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[The alchemist]

Je vous en prie monsieur .

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Merci beaucoup.

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[Saredo]

Merci beaucoup.

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[The alchemist]

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[Ghengis Kaarhis]

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I like France ( not the people), but I would’ve picked japan. For their preservation of culture, art. The tech and the beautiful landscapes.

I don’t think you have it in you to go in a karbashing spree

 

[Saredo]

I don’t think you have it in you to go in a karbashing spree

You’re right

 

[Ghengis Kaarhis]

You’re right

That’s a good thing means you’re not a jaded crazy habaryaar like @Basra

 

[reer]

pashtun dhaqan. libaaxyo. @Shimbiris

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Look at the ambition and the desire and the passion. This small island nation conquered the world and countries quadruple its size. Why weren't Somalis like that we didnt even bother to conquer the naked madows down south. We couldn't even conquer the islands at our doorstep

The famous Battle of Trafalgar is one of the best examples of the British Warrior Spirit. They decimated a larger joint Franco-Spanish fleet and ensured British Naval Supremacy on the high seas.