I'd argue that we are Roman. When the western capital Rome fell, people moved east (imagine moving from California to New York). But the Byzantines still calle

I'd argue that we are Roman. When the western capital Rome fell, people moved east (imagine moving from California to New York). But the Byzantines still called themselves Roman. When the eastern capital was invaded by the Ottoman Turks, they moved west to rebuild Rome - and started the "Renaissance". There was no Renaissance, some magical discovery of ancient knowledge, with masterful artists and scientists like the world had never seen. It was a continuation of the Roman tradition! In fact, one can even go back before Rome to Greece, to Alexander the Great conquering Darius the Mede, to Medo-Persia, to Babylon, to Assyria, to Mesopotamia. Writing was invented in 3 places: Sumeria, China, and South America. But the Mayan history is almost lost (3 books survive). Western culture split from middle-eastern, and Indian civilisation got fragmented until the British Raj forced everyone to learn English, a Latin language. Since the dawn of history, there have been Western, Middle Eastern, and China as world powers. Only in this generation do we have machine translation (Google Translate) to finally share our knowledge more easily between these cultures. I propose a translated search. Pass the query through Google Translate before loading results. Then if I want to know about the legend of a talking ox, I can find it from Pliny ( http://peterburk.github.io/pliny http://peterburk.github.io/pliny ) or from the Chinese.