How Europeans Invented the Modern World

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Ancient Greek Inventions are in fact the original concepts of some of our most well known products, to this day. Those original concepts have just taken on a more modern form.

The early days of the Greek civilization gave birth to many admirable scientists, and they in turn have managed to pave the way for further discoveries by the following generations.

If your curiosity has been peeked and you are wondering exactly what the ancient Greeks contributed to our modern century, other than the well known concepts of democracy and trial by jury, the following is a just a small sample of what they had to offer.
http://www.inventions-handbook.com/a...nventions.html

Things We Use That the Ancient Greeks Invented
http://roadtickle.com/things-we-use-...eeks-invented/

3. Central heating:



Every time your furnace comes on, you can thank the Ancient Greeks. It was them who invented central heating, which was then improved upon by the Romans using a hypocaust system. After the fall of the Roman Empire, central heating mostly disappeared but it would be rediscovered 1,500 years later during the Industrial Revolution.

[Peikko]

Many people don't know the correct meaning of the word "modern".

[Tanais]

Many people don't know the correct meaning of the word "modern".

You mean in terms of era?

[Peikko]

You mean in terms of era?

Yes.

[Styrian Mujo]

The Germanic peoples created the modern world with the British people at the helm.

[awyr dywyll]

How Europeans Invented the Modern World

By David Deming

Yes! It is wrong to associate origin of modern Europe with Rome or Greece, as it had been fashionable in the past. Furthemore, Europeans began their way to forward positions long before Roman Empire. One of the reasons of European progress were well developed land and water trading routes in Western Europe, this achievement was assigned to Romans for no apparent reasons. Celts built fortress and towns, produced advanced weaponry and another production, had advantage in agriculture etc. Even prototype of real democracy was invented by them

Julius Caesar

Since we have come to the place, it does not appear to be foreign to our subject to lay before the reader an account of the manners of Gaul and Germany, and wherein these nations differ from each other. In Gaul there are factions not only in all the states, and in all the cantons and their divisions, but almost in each family, and of these factions those are the leaders who are considered according to their judgment to possess the greatest influence, upon whose will and determination the management of all affairs and measures depends. And that seems to have been instituted in ancient times with this view, that no one of the common people should be in want of support against one more powerful; for, none [of those leaders] suffers his party to be oppressed and defrauded, and if he do otherwise, he has no influence among his party. This same policy exists throughout the whole of Gaul; for all the states are divided into two factions.

[pinguino]

The Germanics, the British, the Chinese created this and that.

How ridiculous! It was not common people who created the advances of civilization. They were genious. People that weren't like anyone on this forum! People with lot of brains ... not just the average Brit beer drinker, or the German polka dancer. No. The average German is not Gauss. The average Russian is not Tsiolkowsky, either. Gimme a break. Genious belong to a different race from me and from everyone of you.

[Stears]

Chinese is a dead civilization. What was invented in chine after the 13th century?

[Stears]

Hungaran inventions were more determinant, relative to the country size: Electronic Television and camera tube, Electroc motor, Transformer, Atomic-Bomb , H-bomb, nuclear reactor , Quantum Theory, Game theory, Modern (non-Euclidian) geometry, tungsten light bulbs, aluminium airship, ramjet, turbo-prop, torpedo etc... etc... etc.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science...ogy_in_Hungary

[Balmung]

Ranking of ethnicities who played major role

1. British (English + Scottish + a little from Irish)

2. German (if German Jews are added, German will match British)

3. Italian & Greek (strong foundations given by Greeks in various fields, Renaissance by Italy, many modern inventions by Italy)

4. French & Jews (any type)

5. Chinese

6. Russians, Dutch, Scandinavians

7. Indians, Arabs, Persians (these people were fucked up and stalled when European started emerging)

8. Japanese, Koreans, Other Europeans, etc

9. other non-SSA

10. SSA (no one below them)


Major Indian inventions are Yoga, simplification of numbers (0 to 9 were invented by Indians), Chess and so many important stuff in mathematics (Fibonacci, trigonometric functions, etc), agriculture, medicine are in the following link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...nd_discoveries

That ranking is all wrong. France & Italy should not be below Germany. They both gave the world far more than Germany did both culturally and technologically. The only way Italy is below Germany is if you're excluding apart of Italian history and only including recent history of Germany.

And if we're arguing recent history, then Britain should share #1 with France.

Greeks the ones to lay the very foundations of western culture are 3rd? and also below Germans?

What kind of list is this!