The Most infulental Civ ever

[FascistRepublic]

Hey all. There's to many civs to make a poll, so I'm just gonna do a thread. What Civilization do you think had the most influence on the modern world?

I say Rome, quite frankly, they conquered an legendary empire, created a extremly high culture, and the remnat helped creat some of the pther great civs, France, Italy, Spain, Byzantium, Portugal, and to a lesser extent England.

 

[Dreadnought]

I feel that its many civs, because without one the world would be different.

But if I had to say it, it was Greece, for its scholars and democracy.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

my vote goes to Egypt. Both Greece and Rome looked to Egypt for learning. You talk about Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, the Romans and Greeks built off of Egyptian innovations, including math, science, construction, and navigation.

 

[Tee Kay]

That would've to be Sumer. Its the civilization which started it all (unless you count Jericho, Catal Huyuk, etc, but in my opinion Sumer was the first to have a complex administration and society and the first to really develop expand its culture.) Sumerian achievements passed on to other Middle Eastern cultures such as Assyria, Phoenicia, Babylonia, Persia and to a lesser extent Egypt (since they develop very much on its own for thousands of years until the Hyksos arrived from the Middle East in the 1600s BCE), which in turn influence the development of western classical civilization such as Rome and Greece, which in turn influence the development of modern western civilization.

 

[Steph]

Hey all. There's to many civs to make a poll, so I'm just gonna do a thread. What Civilization do you think had the most influence on the modern world?

On the modern world? Who invented the metric system which is used worldwide? Who imposed driving on the right side of the road to most countries? Who invented the code civil that serves as the basis of laws in many countries?

 

[Stylesjl]

The British Empire, conquered one quarter of the world's land area and spread its culture throughout almost all countries

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Babylon, as they were one of the first (that is in Civ anyway).

 

[superisis]

India, and if one could say "Islamic civilisation" though that's too vague. Perhaps the Abbasids, or the Ottomans, but I'm not so certain. And of course the large europeans civilisations such as Rome, Byzantine, Greece, and later Spain, Portugal, France and England. Also Italian (if one can claim that an "Italian" civiliasation existed before the Italian nation).

 

[Princeps]

Various of Islamic cultures...

 

[Plotinus]

I'm rather surprised that no-one has nominated China, which has been one of the most important and dominant civilisations throughout virtually the whole of recorded history, and which still is today. Sumer was the first real civilisation, but how long did it last, eh?

 

[Princeps]

I'm rather surprised that no-one has nominated China, which has been one of the most important and dominant civilisations throughout virtually the whole of recorded history, and which still is today. Sumer was the first real civilisation, but how long did it last, eh?

I did consider it, but I found Muslim civilizations (as a collective) to be much more influencal in history.

 

[Truronian]

Britain I would say. No other nation has had such a global effect on culture and politics.

 

[greekguy]

Rome, a good deal of governments are based on Roman ideals and they have left there footprints forever in most of Europe and the Mid East.

 

[luiz]

Rome of course.
Their language is still spoken by many, and their laws are the base for the laws in many modern countries.

IMHO Rome was the most remarkable civilization in the history of mankind.

 

[Plotinus]

Although of course the "Roman law" which forms the basis of modern European laws comes from Justinian, so it's not exactly classical Rome.

 

[Adler17]

Well that´s only partly correct. The corpus iuris civilis is containing 4 parts:
1. Institutiones, a learning book
2. Codex Iustinanus, the collected laws of Iustinan
3. Novellae, laws, which came in force after 534 AD

These parts indeed are only based on the Roman law. They are in no way belonging to the ancient Roman sources.
However there is a fourth part. In this there is a collection of the most important legal essays and works by nearly all important Roman lawyers of ancient times: The Digesta or Pandectae.
However as Justinian ordered to throw the older books away, we have only one other small book of a huge libary rescued out of the Digesta.
That´s why Justinian is seen very ambivalent, one say he rescued the Roman Law, the other say he destroyed it.
THIS part is classical Roman law.

Adler

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

Hey all. There's to many civs to make a poll, so I'm just gonna do a thread. What Civilization do you think had the most influence on the modern world?

I say Rome, quite frankly, they conquered an legendary empire, created a extremly high culture, and the remnat helped creat some of the pther great civs, France, Italy, Spain, Byzantium, Portugal, and to a lesser extent England.

Depends on the time period. Until WW2, the British Empire was, by far, the most influential of world powers. Now it's the United States.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Influence accumluates with time. The USA was very heavily influenced by the British empire, which was influenced by France which was influenced by Rome and on and on the chain goes.

Are we supposed to be looking for where the chain started or which link is the biggest?

Searching for the most influential civ is pretty pointless when you consider that every civilisation is simply other civilisations stirred together and left to sit for a bit.

I'm mixing metaphors again so I'll stop now.

 

[blackheart]

This is a loaded question impossible to objectively answer.

 

[Xineoph]

Very True.

But if I had to choose one, I would choose the Hebrews.

From Which Christianity & Islam came from. Imagine the world today, had it not been for Judaism. What would be the dominant religions? How would the Roman empire looked? Would there be as many 'holy' wars? etc...etc.

But of course they had no impact on the Eastern world really.

You know the 4 kings, queens & jacks in the playing cards? They are supposed to be the most influential civs of the European world.

Hebrews, Romans, Greeks & Byzantians.