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Old 06-07-2009, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Riot
If you had read the speech, you'd see that he didn't say they invented any of that stuff, but the culture in that region contributed heavily to the advancement of same, which it has. You certainly know that Rome had to go through Persia for trade? Persia was quite the center of the cultural crossroads.
So for 700 to 800 years Rome had no architecture and only started building after 61 AD when the Islamic religion was founded? Lucius Stertinius was built in approximately 200BC or 261 years prior to the foundation of Islam and I'm pretty sure it features Roman arches. Not sure what Persia has to do with the argument?
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