I think the most successful civilization is Ancient Greece.
We're still a part of it - it's just the homebase keeps moving
around. We're a part of ancient greece. We're a part of the
very same civilization. It started in Greece, switched over to
Rome, then to Constantnople, then to Rome then quickly to
Europe, then shared with the USA. I see it all as one very long
lived civilization. == makes it easier. Then we've just got a
few civilizations to worry about. Of course, due to exchange of
ideas and commerce and politics and whatnot, even the split into
"western civilization" and "eastern civilization" etc is kind of
misleading as well. But it's a little better than how we
normally break things down I think smile emoticon ==