Which of the ancient civilizations left the biggest legacy? Persia, ancient Egypt, Rome, ancient Greece...

Which of the ancient civilizations left the biggest legacy? Persia, ancient Egypt, Rome, ancient Greece, ancient China or ancient Mesopotamia?

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Greece and China maybe

ancient china by far
Rome, Greece and Persia share so much that if you were to separate each of their accomplishments you'd find a much smaller share.

Ancient Fingolia

Rome

Ancient India

Ancient China

Mesopotamia, obviously.
They were the first of the bunch to farm and they also influenced the Greeks, Egyptians, and the Persians

Rome or China.

Bagina ?

old usa

ottomans left the biggest butthurt :-DD

Greece and Rome of course. They laid the foundation of the modern civilization.

they were neither ancient nor unique
just a bunch of sandniggers

Power rankings
Rome
Persia
Greece
Mesopotamia
China(dont know shit about china desu)

China then Greece.

In that order.

All other nations copied off of them.

Rome by far because we still use their legal system after 2000 years.

Easily Rome or Greece

The sand niggers gave us trigonometry.

Clearly Rome. How many languages have a little Latin? Fuck tons. The entire western world pretty much. China? Greece? Egypt? Not so much.

>people saying China

Seriously? They did fuck all

well they made China

>tfw no roman gf

Rome by a margin of 2000%

My country Greece but they needed a kickstarter.

China is the only one on that list still around

immigrant

Rome and Greece, easily. Can't understand why all these people are saying China

Saying Ancient China is still around because modern China exists is like saying Ancient Rome exists because Italy exists 2bh

Are you retarded? Greeks copied hard off the civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates.

shitskin

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Hyperborea, Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, Thule

Ancient Scandivania

Persia, Greece and China in that order.

>what is Iran
dingus

What has been the legacy of Persia outside of Iran? It's mentioned in the bible a couple times, they were the bad guys in 300. Anything else?

Eh I read a lot about it a while ago, can't remember all of it. But off the top of my head there was stuff like human rights, the system of governance, monotheism, coins, postal system and all kinds of stuff. And later on, most of the advances made in the sciences by "Arabs" were actually Persians writing in Arabic.

That's some pretty weak shit compared with Rome. Besides, I think you think Hammurabi's code was from Persia.

>Hammurabi's code
Wasn't even thinking of it. Perhaps you should look into Cyrus' cylinder, some of your founding fathers admired it prior to writing the declaration thing.

The founding father sadmired anything that had some freedom writing on it like the cortes of León

Good for them

Ancient China, Rome and Greece. Nobody else comes even close.

What about Israel?

They admired a whole bunch of shit. Supposedly they admired the Iroquois' "Great Law of Peace".

When it comes to art, literature, innovations and modern influence Rome takes this hands down. We have months named after Caesars and the religion Rome spread is now the largest religion on earth. Persia got conquered and converted and it's native religion is now a small quirky anachronism.

Maybe, but you said yourself you know very little about it. They did a whole heap of shit that gets no publicity, like vast and intricate underground canal systems that made desert regions prosperous until the Timurids destroyed them. Persian art and literature is obviously extremely rich for anybody with a basic education. And where is Rome now? Persia has had a continuous language and culture that still persists to this day, BTFOing half the Middle East.

Also, you should look into how much of the Renaissance actually came out of the Middle East and Central Asia. Medicine, science, even ancient Greek works were primarily translated from Arabic texts.

Romania

But the Romans copied the Greeks, especially in all cultural matters. Their legal and administrative contributions were unique though.

We could go on all day about who's art was better than who's but this thread is about legacy and despite the impressive accomplishments of the Persian Empire, their legacy is basically nil.
London, Istanbul and Paris were all founded by Rome. what great cities outside of Iran were founded by the Persian Empire?

The one that invented writing.
But hell, asking who had the biggest legacy. It's not a pissing contest.

Greek copied everything from the Phoenicians, Romans copied everything from the Greek.

Ascribing modern day Europe to the Romans is extremely tenuous, but anyway. Depending on your definition of great you have Baghdad, Bukhara, Samarkand and I think Kabul from memory, maybe Yerevan. Probably more.

The Mesopotanians.
They invented the concept of the city and its laws before all others did while also coming up with the agricultural revolution.

>tenuous
There's an entire branch of languages that exist because of all the places Rome occupied. Farsi is a meme language and is completely overshadowed by Arabic even in it's own region.
Modern Europe has Rome's religion speaks the descended languages of Rome, uses Romes Alphabet, Lives in Roman cities and uses Romes calendar.
>Baghdad
Abbasid
>Bukhara
200k people live there and it existed before the Persian empire.
>Bukhara
Still less than 1m people and also pre-dates Persia.
>Kabul
I said "great city" not "synonym for squalid shit-hole". And also predates Persia.

The innovation in the roman law was the dismiss of the legis actiones for the formular system. Their processal law was very modern and even later, during the empire period, it suffered a heavy decadence.

>Rome

Obviously Rome, its legacy carried on till the Holy Roman Empire got dismantled.

The
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>"""""""""""""Roman """""""""""""
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Ancient Sardinia

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Rome and Greece, eveything else has gone to the compost bin.

Sure X and Y have influenced each other, but too bad for them, they are complètement forgotten

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He was nor German nor French, idiot

...or Roman

Franks were german, frog in denial

Franks were a germanic tribe, Germany is an invention of the 19th century

Yeah Germania was never mentioned before, retard.

Germania was never a nation, it was a geographical area. Even the HRE failed as a nation.

Really grasping at straws now you surrender monkey.
Germans united against external threats that's why we survived the Romans and ruled over them afterwards for hundreds of years while you Gallic subhumans surrendered after a pathetic defeat.

Germans:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest

""""french"""":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia

You must be totally retarded to believe that people back then identified as Germans. Just like saying Gauls are French is ridiculous.

Looks like you are in full grasping at straws to not get a total loss mode now which equals a surrender, my job here is done.

Germany only became a country after the Franco-Prussian war. Stop trying to make Germany into some ancient country. It's not.

Looks like you believe in 19th century fairy tales but whatever floats your boat m8

Obviously Rome, they conquered most of Europe, heavily influenced most of the languages and built lots of stuff.

Mesopotamia by far. Not because of quantity, but quality. The few things they did paved the way for the rest.

The great African empire of Wewuz, of which only the fragment known as Egypt survived into surviving written recordings.

Rome and Greece, since former is pretty much the cultural/heritage heir of the latter.

They laid basis of Western Civilisation which conquered the fucking planet.

It's been two millenias and we still use their legal code.
It's been two millenias and their languages are the language of natural science and medicine
It's been two millenias and we still pray to the same God they kickstarted.

China was relevant in its time, sure. But it had nowhere near the influence of the world of the ancient Romans.

>What is a nation

The concept of German nationalism is hundreds of years younger than a concept of nationalism of a eastern-horde slavshit nation known as Poland.

>edgy fags