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Originally Posted by pixiedustboo I hate to be such a party-pooper, but didn't all of those empires fall? | Well the Greek and Egyptian Empires were over taken by the Roman Empire and technically the Roman Empire simply fell apart (Oddly enough when it adopted Christianity), my use of the Greek, Roman and Egyptian empires is simply to show that there is a period of roughly 5000 years where the western world was effective led by structured and organised societies not that dissimilar to todays.
But either way we are way off topic so maybe a new thread to avoid the same fate as the "Evolution" thread?
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Last edited by MontyB; April 25th, 2008 at 02:03.
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