Civilisation-Which Peoples Contributed Most?

Question

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 heralded the start of the modern age etc..and many more

It shouldnt be forgtten that the greeks learned much of what they knew from Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Egypt, and technically speaking, didnt actually invent as much. The Romans in turn got much of what they knew from the Greeks. In Modern times the British have invented far more than say the Germans, French, Italians, Americans or Japanese.

Answer 1

i would say the romans or the british

Answer 2

When speaking of advances in civilization, be careful not to confuses races. Civilization doesn't pop out of geographical regions by magic. It grows out of races which have a sufficient degree of biological development, in much the same way that your fingers grow fingernails.

Ancient Mesopotamia was a medley of both Semitic and Aryan cultures, all of them busy scheming how to conquer their neighbors or avoid being conquered by them. Sometimes an advancement was gained by native invention, and sometimes it was acquired through one of these conquests. It can be difficult, therefore, to identify the race which deserves the original credit.

Also, the idea that civilization first appeared in Mesopotamia might be wrong. There's a massive pedagogical inertia in that notion, which is peculiar because there's some evidence (suppressed in most academic courses which relate to it) that civilization arose first in Europe about 25,000 years ago. For example, there's the clothmaking of supposedly "Stone Age" Europeans, there are European pyramids both larger and older than those of Egypt, and there are ceramic artifacts from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia (East Europe) from 28,000 years ago.

The only thing you can really say about the more recent civilizations of Mesopotamia is that they left written records: something that has not been so far found from the earlier civilizations of Europe.

Other than written records, there remains enough evidence of those earlier European civilizations to declare that Europe, not the Middle East, was the original home to human civilization. It's likely that the Middle East was one of the places into which European culture radiated and enlightened, but we see today only the enlightenment while the connection with the source has been lost.

Answer 3

In order to be fair, you should try to list all the inventions of all other civilizations. You may want to disregard non-unique or duplicate inventions. The Arabs of the Middle Ages accomplished an awful lot, too.

Answer 4

The computer was invented by John Atanasov, an American citizen of Bulgarian origin.

Answer 5

Many civilisations has created much thinks, in the old continent I think the Egyptians because they were alone in Africa and they made the perfumes and so many thing more and in America, the Mayas had done a lots of things including their own weapons and their own scripture and so for.

Answer 6

i do not recognize who contributed more desirable yet a number of your information are incorrect. For a commence the British did not invent football, cricket or i imagine images and the mesopotamians did not invent aqueducts or writing. Its too complicated a evaluation. yet as i'm english i'd bypass for the British.

Answer 7

Which Civilisation? Define Civilisation, define people. Define 'contibute'! The question has no real meaning. I could say my own people, the Scotts, and it would be true, like most human things, for a given value of civilisation and a given vaule of contribution!!

Answer 8

I would say the Egyptians but that's ony because I've studied them so much. but maybe Europeans because they found America and nobody could imagine what the world would be like if they hadn't!

Answer 9

If you are talking quantity - then it is probably the U.S. Quality is another issue.