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The Romans were too busy inventing sanitation, medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh-water systems and public health. So lik
by zissou 14y ago
The Romans were too busy inventing sanitation, medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh-water systems and public health.
So like others have said, infrastructure.
- edent 14y agoBut apart from that, what have they ever done for us, eh?
- masklinn 14y ago> The Romans were too busy inventing […] medicine, education, viniculture These three long predate romans: * Imhotep is the first known physician (technically a polymath, but one of his specialties was medecine) in ~2600 BCE and we have his descriptions of a number of disease diagnosis and treatments * There are traces of formal education dating back to >1000BCE in ancient India and China, scribal education networks in ancient Egypt and middle-east. * As for viticulture, while it spread to Europe through Rome it predates Rome by millenia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture
- userulluipeste 14y agoAlthough a lot of things were "not quite novel" in those times (as are not nowadays), there were a lot of improvement and development to be done around them (something valid today, too).