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Posted on 10/02/2016 1:44:14 PM PDT by LouieFisk
I’ve been lucky enough to see some great places. The Meso-American sites are spectacular. I’ve visited Teotihuacán (nobody knows who built it) near Mexico city and climbed the Pyramid of the Moon because I was too wussy to climb the Pyramid of the Sun. I’d love to see Machu Pichu in Peru since that seems to be one of the great engineering feats of the world.
Easter Island is called Rapanui by the natives. Oh wait ...
One of my daughters was just talking about Machu Picchu, but I don’t know if I could handle the altitude. I told her we’d go to Rome someday ... but that’s what my mother told me, and we didn’t make it. (Dad was sick, and I had a baby.)
A couple of my church choir members are from Ecuador. Life in the Andes is totally different from what we’re used to, even if the towns look like European civilization. The altitude really makes a difference.
I envy you.
I belonged to the Geography Club at Troy. One night we had Dr. Agnew as guest speaker. He was head of the classics dept. and a brilliant man.
He had taken a very long vacation in the Mediterranean area, Mostly Greece, Asia Minor and Crete. He presented a slide show and many of the best photos were of places I had never heard of.
I think a person could spend a lifetime visiting classical sites and never run out of places to see.
Or too many generations of Dim-O-crat rule.
Pretty much the same results.
“Moslems have had civilization: post-conquest Persia, Egypt, Turkey, Spain.”
Add India.
That is pretty much my point. All those places had fully developed civilizations when the Muzzies conquered them. Disagree about Spain, it was a well established colony of Rome and had been that for centuries.
I don’t associate civilizations with something “morally positve”, simply something more advanced. That’s perhaps why I don’t see civilizations as large collections of people. I was taught that they were societies marked by specialization and innovation.
Libs took charge and destroyed them from within.
I agree. If we're going to talk about "civilization" at all, we have to be talking about a level of economic sophistication.
Regarding some cultures, they may have had this level of development, but we just haven't found the evidence.
If you can make the trip to Rome, I can’t think of anything to top it. I’ve been to Rome once for the Jubilee in 2000. We spent most of our time around the Vatican (jaw dropping) but ventured to the old Rome center to visit the jail cell of Sts Peter and Paul and visited the catacombs. Nothing tops being in St. Peter’s square and seeing Pope St. John Paul II.
One of my friends was just there for Mother Teresa’s canonization. I would rather have a less congested visit!
It must have been packed! I don’t like crowds either fortunately for us the Jubilee lasted the entire year! There were still a few thousand there when the Pope made his appearance in the square. There must be a few thousand on hand at all times. Even more at special times.
Any time:)
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