[QUOTE="Liberalicide"][QUOTE="Vfanek"][QUOTE="jointed"]I'm not suggesting anything, just asking a simple question:
If all races are basically the same, why was the Europeans (whites) far superior to the other races when it came to civilized behaviour and technology before they introduced it to the other races?
Again, I'm only asking, and I'm interested in what your answers might be.
Vfanek
Europeans just happened to be the ones that survived. Persia was civilized, just like Ancient Greece. But Philip II was born, and so was his son, Alexander III. Men, jsut as great as Cyrus (the ..creator of Persia), came in the right time, at the right place. What did it lead to? Eastern civilization fell to western hands, having only a half competent king (Darius III), they couldn't stand up on their own. Persia was conquored, and you all know the rest of the story. Alexander died, and his empire scattered. Ruining the Persian civilization, but keeping the western.
Same would have happened if it wasn't for Leonidas and the Spartans, if Xerxes had won, don't you think that today would be a little different? History wouldn't even be recognisable.
from what i gather of the persian empire, it was actually quite lously put together (large numbers, but almost none of them true warriors... rather slaves) and even if the great spartans fell I think someone else could have picked up the slack. Keep in mind the men and women of europe were pretty bad ass back in those times
That is quite - false. The Persian Empire was ruled by a king, and it wasn't more "barbaric" than other nations. Many European coutnries have been far more cruel. Slaves and slaves.. well, many were forced to fight. But it remains in modern times, if the US orders a draft.. will you not be a slave, at least temporarily?
It wasn't a wannabe empire, it was an empire. If it weren't for the Spartans Persia would most surely have occupied Greece. Sparta didn't do much for killing the Persians (sure, twenty thousand is qutie a number.. but was barely a scratch to the Persian army.. physically). What the Spartans did was increasing morale, and did so greatly. The Persians feared the Greeks, who wouldn't after such a terrible blow? While the rest of the Greeks assembled with courage beyond belief. It was probably one of the greatest moral victories in written history.
im not saying it wasnt a great feat for the spartans to do what they did, and eventually what all of greece did. im saying that if a bunch of persians decided to try and take over all of europe, they would have to actually fight ALL of europe. which would b absolutely impossible for them. In my humble opinion.
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