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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24th March 2005, 02:38 PM #61The British Empire ensured that English became the premier world language that it is today.
As far as having an effect on the greatest percentage of the worlds population, I'd say that the U.S. wins hands down. Culturally, the U.S. influence is massive. Movies, TV, Music, Speech, Dress etc. are visible in even the most backwater countries.Photo Gallery
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24th March 2005, 02:46 PM #62Originally Posted by silentC
Actually, you do have a certain resemblance to Gregory Peck now that I think about it :eek:
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24th March 2005, 02:48 PM #63
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24th March 2005, 02:49 PM #64Most of the younger people in Europe speak English as a second language not because of England but because the U.S. represents a quarter of the worlds economy."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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24th March 2005, 02:49 PM #65
I guess I've seen and read about another side of the North American Indians that you haven't - they weren't what I would call civilized or environmentally friendly. They were and are just like everyone else no better no worse.
Originally Posted by Zed
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24th March 2005, 03:03 PM #66
In fact there is plenty of DNA evidence to suggest that a number of American Indians are descendents of..
The Chinese!!!
For more information read "1421" ... a great thesis, tracking the voyages of the Chinese Treasure fleets of the Ming Dynasty.
Some of the bits of evidence tendered apart from the DNA stuff, include the "fact" that elderly Navajo Indians can understand Mandarin, and the names of the Wyoming and Lyoming tribes are a dead set giveaway.
Cheers,
P (Anyone for Sweet and Sour Bison?)
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24th March 2005, 03:07 PM #67
I wonder why the Indians (not the North American ones) haven't had a mention in this thread yet?
Their civilisation is at least as old as the Chinese.
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24th March 2005, 03:15 PM #68Originally Posted by craigbIf at first you don't succeed, give something else a go. Life is far too short to waste time trying.
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24th March 2005, 03:19 PM #69
But the curries are good
Gungadin the Apache (and as I saw in a backwoods US newspaper 'here are some pictures of the Tajma Hall')Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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24th March 2005, 03:29 PM #70Originally Posted by GruntThey laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
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24th March 2005, 03:31 PM #71Originally Posted by craigb
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...s+civilizationThey laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
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24th March 2005, 03:54 PM #72
Grunt,
I can't agree with you about the respective influence of the Brits and Americans in spreading English around the world. The American influence is relatively recent, since the advent of film and TV in the mid-20th Century. The British were spreading English around the world, especially in North America, India and Africa, and the Commonwealth countries, throughout the 17th to 20th Centuries. The American influence is mainly felt by people who learned English originally through the British influence, and who were therefore an audience for American films and TV. Before WWII, the Americans generally stayed in America, apart from a few imperial forays into places like the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa, and their culture had little effect on the rest of the world.
Rocker
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24th March 2005, 04:10 PM #73
And .... The official national language of India is ..................English
Bob Willson
The term 'grammar nazi' was invented to make people, who don't know their grammar, feel OK about being uneducated.
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24th March 2005, 04:11 PM #74
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24th March 2005, 04:11 PM #75
But that has to be attributed to Peter Sellersbirdie num num
Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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