So what did the Romans give us? Let's see ....

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


From: Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Pompeii skeletons reveal secrets of Roman family life
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Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 11:31 PM


On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Denis Gojak wrote:
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> And besides, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You mean apart from providing several languages, indoor plumbing, central heating, or engineering of water supply systems and roads?
**several languages = should we blame them for the modern Babel instead of the ancients of the Near East?
**plumbing and water systems = they gave us all lead poisoning!

Or mosaics, statuary and other artwork oddities? 
** Excuse me! But the Greeks did it first, the Romans were just art theives and copy cats.

Or industrialization of mining, metal processing, gristmilling and a few other minor items?

But surely yours was a rhetorical question anyway. (All in fun...)

Lyle Browning