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[paulpablo]

If life was a game of civilization I think the league table would look pretty much like

1 Great Britain
2 America
3 Rome
4 China

What a stunningly ethnocentric and modern centric view?

In 5000 year span of human civilization, what is a mere century and change of preminance by pip squeaks such as Britain or America?

The pyramids of Ancient Egypt marked the center of world power, culture and civilization for 2000 years before anything like any comparable power arose.

China was supreme in power, wealth, and technological advancement for 1000 years

Rome bestrode the known world like a colossus for 700 years

Next to these of what account is the US, whose dominance has lasted but 100 years and seem set to last not more much than maybe two decades; or Britain whose supremacy can charitably be said to last only 150 years, provided one overlooks the fact that during much of this 150 years, she wasn't actually supreme by any significant margin over her peers, she just played a balance of power game with others?

Native americans
Native Australians
Africa

No. Native American culture may have come to an untimely end, but who is to say ours won't? But while it lasted, Native Americans of central and South America exhibited a cultural continuity that at least matched those of the ancient Egyptians, who remain to this day the undisputed champion of longetivity of civilizational preeminance in the old world.

Well since in the game civilization you get points for
1 empire size, easily won by Britain, even larger than the roman empire, America doesn't technically have an empire but has military bases all over.

Technological adances.
England. The electric motor, the telephone, military tank,, world wide web, sewage system, the industrial revolution, the london exchange (actually a wonder in the game civilization) the jet engine, penicillin, the periodic table, the submarine, television, the world wide web, the english language.

I don't know of any Egyptian inventions as important/world changing as any of these, thinking about it realistically .

You also get points for taking over places in the game civilization so Britain would get points for canada
jamiaca
india/pakistan
austraila
egypt
kenya
ireland
suriname
afganistan
normandy
america
hong-kong
new zealand
burma
nepal
belize
bahamas
grenada

I don't think that's all of them I think there might be more. I got this list of yahoo answers, there were other lists but they were bigger than this one.

I can't think that Egypts empire came remotely close to ever being this powerful.

No. Native American culture may have come to an untimely end, but who is to say ours won't? But while it lasted, Native Americans of central and South America exhibited a cultural continuity that at least matched those of the ancient Egyptians, who remain to this day the undisputed champion of longetivity of civilizational preeminance in the old world.

What relevance does this have to anything?