Which ancient civilization you prefer?

[OnceLord]

Greece for me. Herodotus, Aristotle, Socrates, Alexander the Great.. Western philosophy and science was very much founded with the Greeks.

And I say that as a non-Greek. Love the people, culture and history.

[Linebacker]

I'm glad you posted the maille armour, for the majority of the roman empire this is what the soldier wore. Even though they are more often depicted wearing the Lorica segmentata in films and such, it wasn't utilized for a large period of time. Although I think it looks really awesome.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Roman_soldie\

When does Hollywood get anything right anyway.

The most common mistake movies make is giving Roman army a post-Marian reform look in pre-Marian reform times.

Before those reforms Roman army looked like this


The shiny helmets,shouldered armor and more rectangular shields came with Marius's reforms.

[King Solomon]

Hollywood had made the Greeks and Romans living Demi gods . Yeah they were great but come on. Why aren't their fimd depicting the mighty Persian empire, ottomans or Arabs? Simple. West vs East and we can clearly see that in 300 LOL( love the film but it's obviously bollocks).

[igo112]

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[Stanislav]

Only Greeks

[Prisoner Of Ice]

You know, I used to think this was more asian-looking, but it looks very brunn to me looking at it today.

[Queen B]

Greek and I'm not saying this (only) because I'm biased.
Greek civilization it was a collection of things that made it great. From architecture to science, to arts, to society structure, military, everything.

[Hithaeglir]

I have a soft spot for the Chinese ancient civilization.It's one of my dreams to visit China as well.

Rome and Greece too obviously,concerning Europe.

[Smeagol]

Hollywood had made the Greeks and Romans living Demi gods . Yeah they were great but come on. Why aren't their fimd depicting the mighty Persian empire, ottomans or Arabs? Simple. West vs East and we can clearly see that in 300 LOL( love the film but it's obviously bollocks).

Lol, it has Xerxes as a gay Brazilian guy.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Hollywood had made the Greeks and Romans living Demi gods . Yeah they were great but come on. Why aren't their fimd depicting the mighty Persian empire, ottomans or Arabs? Simple. West vs East and we can clearly see that in 300 LOL( love the film but it's obviously bollocks).

I agree in general. The problem is we need writings to go off of. So we get the bible and the ancient greeks and romans.

I find it funny that most people don't realize that greeks and romans are actually johnny come lately. There's been civilizations all over europe and middle east for 6k years before athens and rome were founded.