What exactly have been the contributions of Rome to mankind?

>>2981517
It's clear that you haven't checked the board to see if the same topic has been posted, or you're jumping on the "Rome didn't invent anything" meme train.

>>2981865
There's really no call for this kind of butthurt.

It's a simple question and a legitimate subject of discussion, your reaction doesn't exactly strengthen your position.

>>2981865
This guy was actually first. The maker of the other thread just needs to be perma-banned.

see >>2981606

>>2981517
Aqueducts, Newspapers, Roads and a lot of surgical practices came to mind

>>2981949
inb4 "water, writing, and roads all existed before, ergo their improvements aren't worth anything"

>>2981940
I actually made both threads. But since this one was getting completely ignored, I made a shitpost version, and surprise surprise, massive replies.

Almost all of them dumb though, but I guess it served to answer the question, namely that Rome really hasn't created anything much.

>>2981959
Can mods use this as evidence to ban him for making repeat threads?

>>2981949
>>2981958
Well you can't invent something that existed before I'm afraid, so the fact that roads and aqueducts existed long before Romans is a bit of an issue for your claim that the Romans invented them.

As for newspapers, if you mean the Actia Diurna (which is not a newspaper), do you have any source of it being the first of its kind? Like I said in the other thread it seems like Greek city states, especially Athens, would likely have had something like this as well.

>>2981967
Don't you find it troubling that you're so insecure in your beliefs that you constantly demand banning any discussion of them?

I think you might feel better in some circlejerky sub-reddit.

>>2981978
Not really, you're not making any contribution to anything, you're just killing threads. What do I gain from permitting you and your lies?

>>2981992
Don't go crying to mods because you were repeatedly proven wrong in such an embarrassing manner, it's beyond pathetic.

The funniest part is that I have no stake or prejudice about this issue, I'm only interested in finding legitimate Roman achievements. It's only your hilariously butthurt retard level shitposting that forced me to tear down your nonsense and thus appear to be taking the opposite position.

So is it okay if I report this thread?

>>2981970
Don't underestimate how much Rome improved roads. What the built was 100x more impressive than anything else the world had seen

>>2982028
Maybe if they banned people like you this board could have some worthwhile discussion.

>>2982026
We weren't proven wrong, you're just being an autistic retard. We listed scores of Roman innovations and you made one autistic excuse after another about how they actually belonged to a prior or following civilization.

And why would I not use every possible method to silence you? You're ruining this board with multiple retard threads.

>>2982041
dumb shitposter

>>2981970
The concept of invention itself is rather ephemeral anyway. Any useful innovation is worth mentioning and acclaiming.
Otherwise you have idiotical situations where the country that kickstarted a field of study gets the credit for all development within it, even if it was done elsewhere.
I mean, the romans didn't invent pathways, but does that mean that roman roads aren't a commendable achievements? Does that mean that modern roads aren't a commendable achievement?
When does mechanical calculation start? Do we praise the astrolabe? Do we praise the slide rule? Pascal's calculator? The analytical engine? The differential engine?
It's a dumb fucking argument. Any improvement ought to be counted.

>>2982044
You spammed dozens of random things that have nothing to do with Rome, and then chimped out when that fact was pointed out.

Go take your shitposting somewhere else.

>>2982170
How exactly did Romans improve roads?

>>2982044
>one autistic excuse after another about how they actually belonged to a prior or following civilization
You mean proved you wrong?

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>>2982339
>How exactly did Romans improve roads?

with multiple layers of materials meant to make them endure heavy usage, the elements of nature and time that require many specific steps and strict standards of construction, a development unique to a civilization with such a massively superior economic activity, trade and traffic to any other before.