Avenger wrote:
>> And how long did it last? Compare with the Chinese, please.
>
>
> Much longer than the Chinese.
Go back and look at Chinese history and apply the same "knock down"
standard that you have for the Romans.
>
> Traces found by archaeologists of early settlements of the Palatine Hill
> date back to ca 750 BC.
but that "settlement" wasn't the Roman civilisation.
> 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.
You and Day Brown should get together, He says that roman was nothing by
a gutted shell anyway
> That's 2200 years. But long before the founding of Rome advanced people.
Rome really advanced noone for much of that period. It was good at
bringing together the scattered "advances" of other civilisations, such
as sewers, etc.
> 80% of China
> is poor and backward while no place in Italy is.
lol, you have no idea how poor and backwards some pockets in italy were
uptil WWII and probably still are.


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