Your favorite ancient civilization

**MinervaItalica** · 03-07-2017, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Danielion

Germanics were smarter than you think, even back then.

This is why they needed Rome for infrastructures

**Desperado** · 03-07-2017, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Viriato

Lol, that's one of the most simplistic definitions of civilization that I have ever heard. Suits someone that thinks Germanic tribes were a civilization.
Civilization: an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.

Georges Dumézil is rolling in his grave right now...

**Dandelion** · 03-07-2017, 05:55 PM

One of the greatest Romans to have ever lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius...us_Cincinnatus

**Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas** · 03-07-2017, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Desperado

Georges Dumézil is rolling in his grave right now...

Firstly, you used supposedly his words without quoting him, which is intelectualy dishonest. Secondly, he is not the only scholar who gets to say what a civilization is or not. At the end of the day that definition is simplistic and that if he really said that's the definition of civilization, which I doubt.

"The Uga-Buga tribe in central Africa can not write but recently a missonair has traveled there and teached them how to. They now write and keep historical records, therefore the Uga-Buga tribe has met the requirements to be considered a civilization"

**~~Egyptian~~** · 03-07-2017, 06:06 PM

Egypt-Iraq-Persia

Mothers of all knowledge.

**Desperado** · 03-07-2017, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Viriato

Firstly, you used supposedly his words without quoting him, which is intelectualy dishonest. Secondly, he is not the only scholar who gets to say what a civilization is or not. At the end of the day that definition is simplistic and that if he really said that's the definition of civilization, which I doubt.

"The Uga-Buga tribe in central Africa can not write but recently a missonair has traveled there and teached them how to. They now write and keep historical records, therefore the Uga-Buga tribe has met the requirements to be considered a civilization"

Actually I used Merriam-Webster's definition of the word. And of course Dumézil is not the only scholar who studied ancient Germanic civilizations, the sheer amount of work that's been done on that should tell you something about how undeveloped they were.

The rest of your post is a strawman and I'm not going to comment on that.

**Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas** · 03-07-2017, 06:13 PM

He studied the Germanic tribes not the Ancient Germanic civilizations because that never existed. You can quote those scholars you like to throw in the posts to sound clever, I would love to read them talking about Ancient Germanic civilizations because I don't know any. Can you show me where they talk about those Germanic civilizations?