Winterbreeze

Well, Singapore has always been thankful to Raffles for founding it. We learn about china and India coz those are where Singaporeans' ancestors come from. We start off history from places near us and related to us. We will do European history later,, Thank you ropoct for the great website! =)

Hi, I am looking for an ancient civilisation as the subject of a history project. It needs to display features of a golden age which, according to my notes, are great prosperity, military glory and cultural, artistic and scientific achievements. With focus on the arts and science. I was very disposed to choose Maya. I had read about it before, and am very amazed by its advancements in astronomy (or astrology?) and mathematics and its mysterious and gory religion. However, I realised they did not manage to develop any military defence and rarely made conquest. (am I right?) It looks like I should narrow my choice between Greece and Rome? But from my view, Greece was inadequate in economic and military developments and Rome in arts and science. I have not done very extensive research (just read the Wikipedia =P), so my views are probably wrongly formed. I did not include china and India as they are the ones taught in school so I can't use them. On a side note, I read a lot of that very popular post in the history category about ancient civilizations. why is that very few people voted for china and Babylon, or Mesopotamia? They are great civilizations, aren't they? Especially china, the prosperous economy of many dynasties, the advancements in the arts and science. The literature flourished and penetrate into our lives nowadays so much and some inventions precedented other civilization by many centuries.