View Poll Results: Which is the worlds greatest ever civilisation
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USA
1 2.33% -
Roman Empire
12 27.91% -
Ancient Eygptians
6 13.95% -
Greeks and Alexander the Great
6 13.95% -
Genghis Kahn
2 4.65% -
Chinese Dynasties
12 27.91% -
Incas
4 9.30% -
Spanish Conquistadores
0 0%
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23rd March 2005, 03:28 PM #16
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Iain what about our inventions like paper, printing, compass, gun power (for good use), noodles, fried ice cream and all that crap?
Originally Posted by Iain
The Scots, who even built a scaled down version of the Great Wall of China to keep the poms out, also invented TV, haggis, caber tossing, kilts so men didn't have to iron, golf, shetland ponies, scotch, the toilet seat 'with the hole', and the list goes on.
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23rd March 2005, 03:35 PM #17
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Yeah, but apart from all that, what have the Chinese ever done for us?
(Sorry Wongo, Monty Python reference
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23rd March 2005, 03:37 PM #18
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Peking duck Originally Posted by silentC
Yeah, but apart from all that, what have the Chinese ever done for us?
(Sorry Wongo, Monty Python reference )
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23rd March 2005, 03:38 PM #19
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Why do these conversations always come back to pancakes?
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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23rd March 2005, 03:42 PM #20
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You've all forgotten about the best of all.
Football, meat pies, BBQ's, kangaroos, Holden cars, Kylie Minogue..........it's right under your nose (or feet in fact) .
I rest my case.
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23rd March 2005, 03:55 PM #21
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Have to agree with Gumby
OZ has to be the greatest place on earth
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23rd March 2005, 04:14 PM #22
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Dont forget to mention Triton people.
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23rd March 2005, 04:26 PM #23
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Didn't the Romans build the walls to keep the scots out.
Originally Posted by Iain
The Scots, who even built a scaled down version of the Great Wall of China to keep the poms out, also invented TV, haggis, caber tossing, kilts so men didn't have to iron, golf, shetland ponies, scotch, the toilet seat 'with the hole', and the list goes on.
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23rd March 2005, 04:37 PM #24
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It would be the Holy Roman Empire under Charlegmaine during the 800's.
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23rd March 2005, 04:48 PM #25
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Its hard to beat the Brits for the depth and breadth of the British Empire - - substantial occupation in every continent in the world.
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23rd March 2005, 05:35 PM #26
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Found out that cats are very nice animals... Originally Posted by silentC
Yeah, but apart from all that, what have the Chinese ever done for us?
(Sorry Wongo, Monty Python reference )
.. to eat.
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23rd March 2005, 05:46 PM #27
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Thjought you were going to suggest Timboon, cheese, crackers and Bob, what else does a forward thinking civilisation need
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23rd March 2005, 05:58 PM #28
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The poll asks for a "civilisation" not an empire.
methinks there is a big difference..... in the case of this poll I reckon that gets rid of the Yanks and the poms for starters! The Chinese certainly were a civilisation in their own right. The Incas also and you could say the same for the Aztecs, certainly the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Japanese and many others. There have been many cicvilisations over the millenia but the Poms and especially the yanks just don't make it.
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24th March 2005, 12:39 AM #29
Why is it so?
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I voted for the acient egyptians as they were an old civilization when the greeks where beginning to form a city states
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24th March 2005, 08:43 AM #30
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Bob don’t forget mate, a lot of ginger. Originally Posted by echnidna
Found out that cats are very nice animals...
.. to eat.
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