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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Suga Foot on June 13, 2006, 08:45:23 AM
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http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/06/10-greatest-countries-in-history-of.html
1. Italy. What can we say? Ancient Rome created what we now call "Western society" -- including our laws, our culture and our religion. After Rome fell and Europe spent 1,000 years in darkness, Italy reclaimed it with the Renaissance. To create a civilization is achievement enough -- but to save it 10 centuries later is truly remarkable.
2. United Kingdom. The dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, the United Kingdom is often credited with being the nation that "created the modern world", by playing a leading role in developing Western ideas of property, capitalism, and parliamentary democracy as well as making significant contributions to literature, the arts, and science and technology. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-quarter of the Earth's surface and encompassed a third of its population.
3. United States. The U.S. is, by any measure, the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential country in the history of the world. Only its brief lifespan keeps it from topping the list. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II as the only major power not devastated, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, the U.S. has emerged as the world's sole superpower.
4. China. The once and future superpower. China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization. It has one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and one of the world's longest continuously used written language systems. Today, it is the likely successor to the United States as the most powerful country in the world.
5. Greece. Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and being the birthplace of modern democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western Literature, Political Science and drama, including both tragedy and comedy, Greece has a very long and remarkably rich history during which its culture has proven to be especially influential in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Today, Greece is a developed nation, member of the European Union since 1981 and a member of the Eurozone since 2001.
6. Egypt. The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa 3200 BC by King Narmer, and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia. The last native dynasty, known as the Thirtieth Dynasty, fell to the Persians in 343 BC who dug the predecessor of the Suez canal and connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Later, Egypt fell to the Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines. It was the Muslim Arabs who introduced Islam and the Arabic language in the seventh century to the Egyptians, who gradually adopted both. Unfortunately, it's been pretty much downhill since then.
7. Iraq. The Republic of Iraq sits on land that is historically known as Mesopotamia, which was home to some of the world's first civilizations, including the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian. These civilizations produced some of the first writing, science, mathematics, law and philosophy in the world, making the region the center of what is commonly called the "Cradle of Civilization". Downhill since then.
8. India. The first known permanent settlements appeared over 9,000 years ago, and gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilisation, a centre of important trade routes and vast empires. India has long played a major role in human history. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Ayyavazhi, and Sikhism -- all have their origins in India.
9. Iran. Iran (formerly Persia) has been inhabited by human beings since pre-historic times, centuries before the earliest civilizations arose in nearby Mesopotamia. Following the Islamic conquest of Persia, the country was at the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, especially during the 9th to 11th centuries.
10. Chad.Michel Brunet's 2002 discovery places the origins of humanity here, about six million years ago. Where in Africa life began remains a mystery -- until Brunet, Kenya and Ethiopia were the best theories -- but we'll give Chad credit for being our best guess at the moment.
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It's interesting how each one is ranked according to different criteria...for me, there's too much on this list I totally disagree with.
It's very curious how sometimes this list regards states and at other times it regards only the geographical locations pretaining to certain historical events, without acknowledging that some of the states existing at these locations nowadays have little, if anything, to do with the events described.
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It's interesting how each one is ranked according to different criteria...for me, there's too much on this list I totally disagree with.
It's very curious how sometimes this list regards states and at other times it regards only the geographical locations pretaining to certain historical events, without acknowledging that some of the states existing at these locations nowadays have little, if anything, to do with the events described.
some one is upset israel wasnt on the list
dont worry, if they had a top 10 list of disgraceful blots in the world, israel would be top 3
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Based on the impacts those countries have had on the world throughout history, I can look at this list and feel like it's pretty accurate. Maybe I'd swap Greece with China, since I feel Greece has had a bigger contribution to the world.....for now at least.
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shouldnt post this up while Bryan is gone... i bet he wants a word in..
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some one is upset israel wasnt on the list
I don't think Israel should be on the list, neither do I think there should be some of the countries mentioned.
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some one is upset israel wasnt on the list
I don't think Israel should be on the list, neither do I think there should be some of the countries mentioned.
Well, which ones?
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so did they also name other countries which where big once? like france with napoleon, germany with karl the great, netherlands with the VOC, spain with their mayor ass shipzorz in 1400 etc.
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thats a etarded ass list roma no. 1 , some white cracka came up with this shit from his ass
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lol @ KASSEM, once again hyped off American gangsta rap, decides to spew out cultural hatred in the form of one our black celebrities, in between googling his favorite American rappers and porn galleries. you sad homosexual a-rab, i pity you.
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a lot of great inventions came from germany
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lol @ KASSEM, once again hyped off American gangsta rap, decides to spew out cultural hatred in the form of one our black celebrities, in between googling his favorite American rappers and porn galleries. you sad homosexual a-rab, i pity you.
coming form someone who lives in the centre of homosexuality.u woudn't find a lot of arab faggots ,they get the sword down here
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lol @ KASSEM, once again hyped off American gangsta rap, decides to spew out cultural hatred in the form of one our black celebrities, in between googling his favorite American rappers and porn galleries. you sad homosexual a-rab, i pity you.
coming form someone who lives in the centre of homosexuality.u woudn't find a lot of arab faggots ,they get the sword down here
so do you mean that arabs are proud, self-proclaiming homophobes who discriminate savagely against gay people?
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sounds like you guys are trying to cover something up over there, maybe a secret, maybe a secret fantasy
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a lot of great inventions came from germany
But Germany didn't officially become a country until the late 1800's right? Weren't they just German states? And Germany's the main reasons the 2 World War's popped off.
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thats a etarded ass list roma no. 1 , some white cracka came up with this shit from his ass
Why not?? I agree with Rome at #1. They had the biggest empire for a long time. And even when the fall of the Roman Emire came the Byzantine Empire was still holding up for a couple more hundreds of years.
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lol @ KASSEM, once again hyped off American gangsta rap, decides to spew out cultural hatred in the form of one our black celebrities, in between googling his favorite American rappers and porn galleries. you sad homosexual a-rab, i pity you.
coming form someone who lives in the centre of homosexuality.u woudn't find a lot of arab faggots ,they get the sword down here
so do you mean that arabs are proud, self-proclaiming homophobes who discriminate savagely against gay people?
yes
and?
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lol @ KASSEM, once again hyped off American gangsta rap, decides to spew out cultural hatred in the form of one our black celebrities, in between googling his favorite American rappers and porn galleries. you sad homosexual a-rab, i pity you.
coming form someone who lives in the centre of homosexuality.u woudn't find a lot of arab faggots ,they get the sword down here
so do you mean that arabs are proud, self-proclaiming homophobes who discriminate savagely against gay people?
Fuck gay people
yes
and?
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^ lol
if i knew arabs felt this way about queers, i would have done somethin in Egypt when i was there... i was walkin around in a singlet and some faggy ass lookin dude comes up to me says some shit like
"hey man you know i am crazy in the head, i like boys, maybe you could come with me?" or some shit like that, if i was in my country i would have whooped his ass, there were heaps of arabs around, so i was scared to fuck the cunt up...
not that i hate queers or nuffin, well back then i did ;D but even then i only hated them if they did stupid shit, like propose sex to me..
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^ lol
if i knew arabs felt this way about queers, i would have done somethin in Egypt when i was there... i was walkin around in a singlet and some faggy ass lookin dude comes up to me says some shit like
"hey man you know i am crazy in the head, i like boys, maybe you could come with me?" or some shit like that, if i was in my country i would have whooped his ass, there were heaps of arabs around, so i was scared to fuck the cunt up...
not that i hate queers or nuffin, well back then i did ;D but even then i only hated them if they did stupid shit, like propose sex to me..
the guy would have been lynched by the average ahmed in a few seconds
(http://direland.typepad.com/direland/images/irangay_teens_15.jpg)
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your people are fuckin psychos who fear human nature. no wonder you live in such shitty conditions and we Americans have to come bail you out of the ugly mess your religion has created for you. you know how i know your culture is gay? only hardcore undercover fags would have to kill a queer to prove they were straight, most normal people like myself dont get aroused by homosexuality, therefore we dont have any business with it. why would the average ahmed have to go and strangle a fag because it's not right? :camp:
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your people are fuckin psychos who fear human nature. no wonder you live in such shitty conditions and we Americans have to come bail you out of the ugly mess your religion has created for you. you know how i know your culture is gay? only hardcore undercover fags would have to kill a queer to prove they were straight, most normal people like myself dont get aroused by homosexuality, therefore we dont have any business with it. why would the average ahmed have to go and strangle a fag because it's not right? :camp:
don't get mad scotty ,so who in ur family is gay ,its hard for u to understand that ur culture is wrong ,read some quran to clean ur soul bitch
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I think the inclusion of Chad is a little odd. I mean, the oldest hominine fossils may come from there, but that's hardly to the credit of Chad itself. It's not like it invented the our evolutionary lineage. It's definately the odd one out on this list and the one that should be replaced by another country such as Germany, Spain or even my own Netherlands.
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your people are fuckin psychos who fear human nature. no wonder you live in such shitty conditions and we Americans have to come bail you out of the ugly mess your religion has created for you. you know how i know your culture is gay? only hardcore undercover fags would have to kill a queer to prove they were straight, most normal people like myself dont get aroused by homosexuality, therefore we dont have any business with it. why would the average ahmed have to go and strangle a fag because it's not right? :camp:
because the circumstances of the last 400 years has polarized the world. the islamic world is the ghetto, if u will.
you dont have to be a genius, banana boy , to recognize how different a fag gets treated in san fran downtown compared to east oakland.
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^ lol
if i knew arabs felt this way about queers, i would have done somethin in Egypt when i was there... i was walkin around in a singlet and some faggy ass lookin dude comes up to me says some shit like
"hey man you know i am crazy in the head, i like boys, maybe you could come with me?" or some shit like that, if i was in my country i would have whooped his ass, there were heaps of arabs around, so i was scared to fuck the cunt up...
not that i hate queers or nuffin, well back then i did ;D but even then i only hated them if they did stupid shit, like propose sex to me..
the guy would have been lynched by the average ahmed in a few seconds
(http://direland.typepad.com/direland/images/irangay_teens_15.jpg)
Damn that's sick as fuck, but well your culture didn't have an Age of Enlightenment yet so there's hope left for more tolerance in the future
now I understand why my gay english teacher didnt hate bush (who is opposed to gay marriage)
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^ lol
if i knew arabs felt this way about queers, i would have done somethin in Egypt when i was there... i was walkin around in a singlet and some faggy ass lookin dude comes up to me says some shit like
"hey man you know i am crazy in the head, i like boys, maybe you could come with me?" or some shit like that, if i was in my country i would have whooped his ass, there were heaps of arabs around, so i was scared to fuck the cunt up...
not that i hate queers or nuffin, well back then i did ;D but even then i only hated them if they did stupid shit, like propose sex to me..
the guy would have been lynched by the average ahmed in a few seconds
(http://direland.typepad.com/direland/images/irangay_teens_15.jpg)
man he did it in borad public... i was actually scared, didnt want to get raped... so i just gave dude look of death, and walked away...
and yeah, any ghetto you go to, aint no-one accepting a faggot...
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thats a etarded ass list roma no. 1 , some white cracka came up with this shit from his ass
Why not?? I agree with Rome at #1. They had the biggest empire for a long time. And even when the fall of the Roman Emire came the Byzantine Empire was still holding up for a couple more hundreds of years.
agreed
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your people are fuckin psychos who fear human nature. no wonder you live in such shitty conditions and we Americans have to come bail you out of the ugly mess your religion has created for you. you know how i know your culture is gay? only hardcore undercover fags would have to kill a queer to prove they were straight, most normal people like myself dont get aroused by homosexuality, therefore we dont have any business with it. why would the average ahmed have to go and strangle a fag because it's not right? :camp:
because the circumstances of the last 400 years has polarized the world. the islamic world is the ghetto, if u will.
you dont have to be a genius, banana boy , to recognize how different a fag gets treated in san fran downtown compared to east oakland.
so why are you "ghetto" ppl telling us whats right and wrong when its obvious your race is a bunch of fundamentalist fuck ups.
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J BANANAS 4 TOT MOD 2006, THE PEOPLES CHOICE!
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this list is bullshit where is france dick head,same for germany
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^^ what did france and germany do that has impacted the world??
the french kiss? hitler? women with hairy armpits?
peace
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Chief, is it just me, or is it all the same chick in that picture in your Sig?
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3. United States.[/b] The U.S. is, by any measure, the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential country in the history of the world. Only its brief lifespan keeps it from topping the list. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II as the only major power not devastated, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, the U.S. has emerged as the world's sole superpower.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
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Germany, England, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, America, China, Italy and Greece should be on this list.
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http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/06/10-greatest-countries-in-history-of.html
1. Italy. What can we say? Ancient Rome created what we now call "Western society" -- including our laws, our culture and our religion. After Rome fell and Europe spent 1,000 years in darkness, Italy reclaimed it with the Renaissance. To create a civilization is achievement enough -- but to save it 10 centuries later is truly remarkable.
2. United Kingdom. The dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, the United Kingdom is often credited with being the nation that "created the modern world", by playing a leading role in developing Western ideas of property, capitalism, and parliamentary democracy as well as making significant contributions to literature, the arts, and science and technology. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-quarter of the Earth's surface and encompassed a third of its population.
3. United States. The U.S. is, by any measure, the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential country in the history of the world. Only its brief lifespan keeps it from topping the list. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II as the only major power not devastated, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union following the Cold War, the U.S. has emerged as the world's sole superpower.
4. China. The once and future superpower. China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization. It has one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and one of the world's longest continuously used written language systems. Today, it is the likely successor to the United States as the most powerful country in the world.
5. Greece. Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and being the birthplace of modern democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western Literature, Political Science and drama, including both tragedy and comedy, Greece has a very long and remarkably rich history during which its culture has proven to be especially influential in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Today, Greece is a developed nation, member of the European Union since 1981 and a member of the Eurozone since 2001.
6. Egypt. The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa 3200 BC by King Narmer, and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia. The last native dynasty, known as the Thirtieth Dynasty, fell to the Persians in 343 BC who dug the predecessor of the Suez canal and connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Later, Egypt fell to the Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines. It was the Muslim Arabs who introduced Islam and the Arabic language in the seventh century to the Egyptians, who gradually adopted both. Unfortunately, it's been pretty much downhill since then.
7. Iraq. The Republic of Iraq sits on land that is historically known as Mesopotamia, which was home to some of the world's first civilizations, including the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian. These civilizations produced some of the first writing, science, mathematics, law and philosophy in the world, making the region the center of what is commonly called the "Cradle of Civilization". Downhill since then.
8. India. The first known permanent settlements appeared over 9,000 years ago, and gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilisation, a centre of important trade routes and vast empires. India has long played a major role in human history. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Ayyavazhi, and Sikhism -- all have their origins in India.
9. Iran. Iran (formerly Persia) has been inhabited by human beings since pre-historic times, centuries before the earliest civilizations arose in nearby Mesopotamia. Following the Islamic conquest of Persia, the country was at the heart of the Islamic Golden Age, especially during the 9th to 11th centuries.
10. Chad.Michel Brunet's 2002 discovery places the origins of humanity here, about six million years ago. Where in Africa life began remains a mystery -- until Brunet, Kenya and Ethiopia were the best theories -- but we'll give Chad credit for being our best guess at the moment.
I agree with the whole list. Except maybe the UK being over the US... lol. I would have put Spain on there somewhere, more than likely taking out Iraq, 'cause Iraq was the first empire but it was weak. Spain ended up taking over most of the Americas, and conquered the Incas and Aztec (damn Spanish >:() That right there deserves a spot over Iraq.
I'd keep Chad, Iran (Persia was a muthaphukkin' power house to the fullest) and India. I'd give Iraq an honorable mention just 'cause they were the first, but Spain I'd put in that 7th spot, and keep the rest the same.
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Spain and Portugal should be like 11 and 12