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> "Doug" <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "David Eduardo" <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> There's no piece of land on Earth that has a special gas exuded by
the
>>>> local soil that makes flush toilets, clean running water, air
>>>> conditioning and the rule of law. There's no geographic location that
>>>> has these properties inherently.
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>>> Of course, the residents of Tenochtitlan had running water, flu****ng
>>> toilets, irrigation and hydroponic gardens when the Spanish, who threw
>>> their "night soil" out the window into the street, arrived in the "new
>>> world." Naturally, the dirty Europeans brought all manner of disease
>>> and infestation with them, and those diseases... more than military
>>> strength... vanquished the native populations in what is now Mexico.
>>>
>>> Of course, the Middle Kingdom had an organized society and rule of law
>>> when Europeans were still beating each other over the head with clubs.
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>> Um, the Romans had all this and more long before ANYONE in
>> South, Central or N. America.
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> And how long did it last? Compare with the Chinese, please.
Much longer than the Chinese.
Traces found by archaeologists of early settlements of the Palatine Hill
date back to ca 750 BC.
This ties in very closely to the established legend that Rome was founded
on
21 April 753 BC, which was traditionally celebrated in Rome with the
festival of Parilia.
By advice of his astrologers, Mohammed II waited for the fortunate day
(May
29, 1453), when the grand assault was delivered on all sides
simultaneously,
by sea and by land.
The large cannons had already been used to batter down the magnicient
walls
in two places during the siege.
The small garrison, led by emperor Constantine XI personally, offered
desperate resistance, but was alas overwhelmed.
Buried among the heaps of slain, the body of the last of the Roman
emperors
was never recovered. There was no general massacre, but the city was
thoroughly sacked, its literary treasures dispersed or destroyed, and
60'000
of the population were sold into slavery.
Alas, the Eastern Roman Empire, too, had ceased to be.
That's 2200 years. But long before the founding of Rome advanced people
lived there and right to the present Italy is still there as a country
which
with 50m people ranks 5th in the world in GNP. Italy may have been knocked
doen a couple of places but that's due to the rise of other much more
populous countries like China with 25x the population. 80% of China is
poor
and backward while no place in Italy is.
Perhaps you semi literate Mexicans should study history a bit. Of course,
the top Mexicans are only Mexican by nationality. In reality they are the
ethnic European minority born in Mexico, and this is true in all of South
America. You ever watch Mexican TV? All European type actors. Good looking
Brazilian models? Europeans too and 1/2 of them have German names lol
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