What is the point of this exercise? It's not much different from "who's stronger, Mighty Mouse or Superman?" What can it possibly matter today whether we agree that the Taj Mahal was unparallelled in its time? What use is past glory? And why should peasant farmers in Utar Pradesh feel proud of some wealthy guy's mausoleum for his wife, any more than a Frenchman should feel proud of the palace of some other wealthy guy built for his court? The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
He (she) posted several times suggestions for me to improve my knowledge of history:
Melanchton: ...makes me think you should improve your knowledge of European history...
And then posted this here:
Melanchton: France (Gaul) has been an important part of the Roman empire from 120 BC for the South and from 52 BC for the whole country to the end of the empire. Two Roman emperors (Claudius and Caracalla) were born in Gaul. And the French language is derived from Latin. Great Britain has been part of the Roman Empire from 43 BC... But maybe this doesn't fit your definition of inheritor.
But maybe this doesn't fit your definition of inheritor.
And you apparently did not find in it anything objectionable.
From few remarks and comments here and there I cannot make any judgements and recommend improving knowledge of history but I found in one recent Russian guidebook about London (Orange guide, Eksmo publishing house, 2008) interesting information about historical knowledge in England. There, it was claimed, most people think that first prominent Briton was Julius Caesar indeed, and the next great Englishman was William The Conqueror (ethnic Norman from France). And two more Greats are Oliver Cromwell and Winston Churchill. And the rest of history in public mind is of the same quality which is well enough for ordinary people.
However people participating here on forum should understand that others might learn different history of their countries where inconvenient facts were not hidden under the carpet.
