(July 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm)Rahul Wrote: Hmmm.
I had to think for a while on this.
I would say overall they have benefitted society for technological innovations among other things.
Greece provided the idea of democracy along with architecture, hippocratic oath, philosophy, etc.
Romans brought sanitation, irrigation, public libraries, roads, etc.
Britain brought agricultural & industrial revolutions, mechanical inventions, economics, top notch universities, and was vital in ending slavery in a ton of countries, etc.
America currently provides 31% of the world's global scientific and medical research, educates huge numbers of foreign born students in postdoctoral degrees, and has created such things as powered flight, internal combustion engine, the microchip, etc.
If none of these superpowers had existed we'd probably be grubbing around in flea covered hair hides for a measely 30 years or so before we died from really pathetically easy things we can fix today.
If one or more of these never existed we would not be near as advanced as we are today.
So overall, despite all the fucked up shit that they have all done, I would say they have greatly benefitted humanity.
I was thinking along these lines, but then you also have countries which are powerful which do benefit the world scientifically which aren't as imposing and war mongering as America, Britain and Rome have been. But yeh the bottom line is I do agree with what you're saying.
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