Would it be better if the greeks weren't conquered by the romans?

No. Romans were greekboos and thanks to them hellenic culture was propagated.

Yes. They stopped Hellenic technological progress. They had invented the steam engine, railroads and vending machines. The industrial revolution was at hand until the Romans set the world back 2000 years.

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>>2667441
go to bed plato

>>2667441
The Macedonians were more barbarian than the Romans.

>>2666657
I say most of it was due to Alex

but Romans helped

>>2667441
The more I learned about technological development in the Hellenistic period the more I wish they'd won

>>2666644

Yes, Rome was ruined by degenerate, corrupt, lazy Greeks.

The world we would have seen if Rome before the punic wars, had not been tainted by Hellenism, if the citizen soldier figure had endured, the dignified Jupiter instead of the licentious Zeus, the Virtues and strength of it, it would have been utopic.