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Modern Civilisation-Which Peoples Contributed The Most??

Modern Civilisation! To Which Peoples Do We owe The Most? For me its got to be the Mesopotamians(Sumerians, Akkadiand, Assyrians, Babylonians & Arameans), or the British. The Mesopotamians invented: the wheel, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chronology(breaking time into days, weeks, momths and years),the battery, first empires, minted coinage, organised military, organised civil service, first legal codes,Sun Dial, first large cities, medical texts and codes, aqueducts, advanced irrigation etc. The British invented; Television, Radar, Vertical Take off Aircraft, Jet Ention, Steam Engine, Trains, Battle Tanks, Vaccinations, Hovercraft, Radio, Electrical Conductors, Smallpox Cure, Penicillin, Test tube babies, World Wide Web, Calculating Machine, Computer, Computer Memory Bank, Telephone (Bell was a Scotsman), Supersonic Airliner, Spinning Loom, Sewing Machine, Underground/Subway Railways,Camera, Photography, Football, Cricket, Baseball,golf,The Industrial revolution that heral Actually the Prick who called me an idiot is wrong the WWW was invented by a briton. And Nulclear weapons wrent invented by @Americans@ but by german jewish exiles from europe. The Hoover Dam? Large dams have been around for 1000 of years! ALEXANDER FLEMMING DISCOVERED PENICILLIN IN 1929, IDIOT!!

Public Comments

1. Well we can blow up the world 10 times over so it's gotta be the United States of America. Oh yes and we put a man on the moon, and built the Hoover Dam.
2. The Armenians, they invented me and Cher.
3. Mesopotamians is a a VERY broad category covering thousands of years and dozens of civilisations. On the basis of this I would go for the Medditeranians (the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines). Minted coinage was the Lydians. I wrote an essay on this as part of my archaeology degree.
4. I don't know who contributed more but some of your facts are wrong. For a start the British didn't invent football, cricket or i think photography and the mesopotamians didn't invent aqueducts or writing. Its too hard a comparison. But as I am english I'd go for the British.
5. Where are you getting your facts from a cracker Jack box, for one the British never invented Penicillin.
6. the British its simple