Stark does also give them credit for transmitting the recipe for concrete). And what were those ideas? Well, the most important ones were actually not Roman but Greek-philosophical/political-and Judeo-Christian. My apologies, I'm forgetting for the moment who coined the concept, but one way of looking at the Roman Republic/Empire is as an earlier version of the Internet-as a communications network that served to distribute ideas. Rodney Stark, Introduction to How the West Won For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain backward and impoverished.
I use the term modernity to identify that fundamental store of scientific knowledge and procedures, powerful technologies, artistic achievements, political freedoms, economic arrangements, moral sensibilities, and improved standards of living that characterize Western nations and are now revolutionizing life in the rest of the world.
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