04-19-2004, 09:22 AM
First, Rufus, hat off to your post. But then my, like your academic background, is history, so I'm opinionated.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>Rufus writes (and other acknowledge) "The Germanic and Gallic tribes, the Parthian/Persian empire, the Greeks, Seleucid Syria and Asia Minor, the Ptolemaic Egypt, Arabia all of these people and hundreds more had civilizations which in there own way were important and "advanced". Although I am willing, for tranquility's sake, to agree to some extent (e.g. that Romans were not good, just a big piece of OUR heritage), I would like to point out that you are overextending your relativism too much by placing (see above) the Germanic and Gallic tribes in the same list as the other true Civilizations. I accept the claim that the Celtic Culture in Gaul (Spain, Britain) were quite sophisiticated. But Culture and Civiliaztion are not the same thing!<hr><br>
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Pray enlighten us. My personal interpretation of “civilisationâ€ÂÂ
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>Rufus writes (and other acknowledge) "The Germanic and Gallic tribes, the Parthian/Persian empire, the Greeks, Seleucid Syria and Asia Minor, the Ptolemaic Egypt, Arabia all of these people and hundreds more had civilizations which in there own way were important and "advanced". Although I am willing, for tranquility's sake, to agree to some extent (e.g. that Romans were not good, just a big piece of OUR heritage), I would like to point out that you are overextending your relativism too much by placing (see above) the Germanic and Gallic tribes in the same list as the other true Civilizations. I accept the claim that the Celtic Culture in Gaul (Spain, Britain) were quite sophisiticated. But Culture and Civiliaztion are not the same thing!<hr><br>
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Pray enlighten us. My personal interpretation of “civilisationâ€ÂÂ
Andreas Baede
