Professor Kenneth Harl likes to say that Spain had to conquer the new world, because the Romans had depleted Iberia of resources. (View Post)

Part of the point is that it's just for this little chunk of history that the West has had superiority in technology and warfare. You could say the Mongols were the masters of warfare of the 13th and… (View Post)

I've got to disagree on it being specifically western progress. Advances have been spread and inherited from a huge amount of cultures. The Greeks and Romans were inheritors to science and culture of… (View Post)

First off, Greek and Roman slavery did allow the splitting up of families. Nothing new there. Second of all, those were just examples of how slavery functioned differently in a couple of different so… (View Post)

First off, that was mainly in response to the statement Zaghoul that "Didn't think they could handle their freedom." I think Jefferson was completely wrong on that point, but it was a legit… (View Post)