(May 2, 2009 at 7:00 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Okay. You have to be very careful with the term "smarter". Because some group has aquired more knowledge says nothing on their intellect.
Very true, very true....
I've always thought that (well, for years anyway, maybe not when I was a 'lil kid), some do not agree. Glad to see someone else with the same opinion

I mean biologically speaking our brains are basically the same as they were back in the stone age, even, aren't they?
..it's not like we were stupid then...just had less information, education and technology
(May 2, 2009 at 7:00 am)leo-rcc Wrote: but assimilated all good ideas from all kinds of different parts of Europe, Afrika, and Asia. That is also a way of gathering knowledge and served the Romans very well.
Kind of like Microsoft in ancient civilization form?