Why does everyone consider Rome such a great Civilization?

[Warman17]

And if someone refuses to give disproportionate praise to non-Western civilisation they are branded "reactionary" and "Eurocentric". Isn't life grand?

What defines disproportionate?

 

[Mirc]

The same thing that defines disproportionate when it comes to Far Eastern civilizations...

 

[dido]

Simple way to explain the influence of Rome: we are looking at it right now.

The roman alphabet is used in the north america, south america, australia, europe ofcourse and most of africa. That's only leaves one continent Asia that doesn't use the alphabet.

and that continent is home to 60% of world population
and btw you missed the slavic states and the muslims

 

[Plotinus]

You mean the Arabs. There are Muslim countries that use the Latin alphabet. Otherwise, of course, you're right.

 

[Mirc]

and btw you missed the slavic states and the muslims

Not all of the Slavic countries use the Cyrillic alphabet...

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria do.

Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, don't (although in Serbia and Bosnia the Cyrillic alphabet is still an accepted alphabet, it's used in parallel with the Latin one).

Overall, the Latin alphabet is used by the great majority of the world. And you know, it is used in the LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY in the world too...

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