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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Yonis: [QB] [QUOTE]Arwa: How do you define Western civilization? [/QUOTE]In my opinion as has been quite for long time, is that western civilizations foundation is a little bit flawed and corrupt since it bases itself as the strict inherent of the greco-roman history. Even though greece is today located at the european continent and so is Rome but the reality is that the romans and certainly greeks were more a near-eastern/levant oriented people. Everything points at them being more of a people in the mental leval of ancient syrians, jordanians, palestinians and even egyptians than anything near to British, German and other contemporary statea that were at that time only Roman sattelite states. The Greeks themselves didn't even bother looking north,and were more interested in afghanistan than france, if we follow alexanders trail. This is further testified by how romans buildt their greatest monuments in whole of north africa coasts and levant regions, but almost none in northern, eastern ond western europe. And also how romans early adopted christianity and latter was spread through out their empire in the south and east, but quite late on the northern and western part of its empire, even at the late medevil time the Byzantine empire was at the south eastern end of the roman territory. But today we are supposed to believe that the european foundation is unique and not connected outside of europe. Europeans have taken upon the ancient knowledge and exeled on taking it to a whole new level, and thus should get all the credit and applauds, which they absolutly deserve. But this whole "we were always the best" attitude which is reflected through how they try to make themselves the originators of all great things can sometimes become a bit to much. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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