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 ==