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"The Greeks were 'scientists' of the ancient world and the Romans its 'engineers'."

2006-09-24 00:57:09 · 2 answers · asked by New York bound 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture

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Dead-on statement. The Greeks came up with all kinds of ideas about math and engineering and even religion and so on, and the Romans took the ideas and applied them practically.

2006-09-24 01:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Greeks were the inventors while the Romans were the ones who implemented and added values to those inventions.

2006-09-24 08:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by CURIOUS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋