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I think we can all agree that for the best material standard
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I think we can all agree that for the best material standard of living, technology, and access to information, our era and place (Western world, roughly), is the best so far.

But what time and place had the greatest *culture* of all time?
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Ancient Greece
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>>1292262
By ancient, do you mean classical, or just ancient in general? Also, any state in particular?
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France in the 19th century
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>>1292241
Alexandria.
Crete.
Some pagan village somewhere
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>>1292241
"culture". You mean civilization and Victorian Britain had arguably the best civilization of all time.
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>>1292276
Athens in the 5th and 4th century BC

Also Hellenistic Egypt seems kind of comfy
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Khanate of Khiva
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>Capital "C" "Culture"
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>>1292241
Define greatest
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>>1292241
Current U.S.A.
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>>1292298
What are you trying to say, that cultural distinction doesn't exist?
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>>1292241
Persia at its height seemed pretty chill.
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>>1292241
Probably current day USA
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>>1292306
>>1292351
these niggas know
cultural saturation so complete, people say that the US doesn't have any culture, because its so damn ubiqitous.
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>>1292306
what's the difference between yoghurt and the USA? If you leave yoghurt alone for 200 years, it'll at least develop some of its own culture
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>>1292396
It's 300 years and you're retarded.
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>>1292241
Pax Romana
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>>1292591
>300 years
I didn't realize this was 2076
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