No mention of the Romansch, that's quite disappointing. But learning more about Romania and Romanian culture still made for a wonderful read, kudos to the author.

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comrade1234 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

REG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

To me, what would suck the most is living in a place after the Romans where you can see signs of their civilization but you're living a rural peasant life.

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toyg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In many ways, that's how a lot of people feel in modern Britain: everywhere you see signs of XIX century grandeur, but "on the streets" life can feel depressingly backwards.

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Shitty-kitty 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math. Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors.
	▲	flir 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Medicine/education, that's the Greeks Egyptians, Shirley? (Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree).

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dmd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They’re literally the 2nd group mentioned?

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smitty1110 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 100% deserve getting flamed a bit for skimming and shooting off a comment when not paying enough attention.

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klez 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Uh? They're the second group they talk about, just after the Romanians.