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"Where we are heading as a civilization will be forever determined by what happens in this century. If mankind is destined to revert to wild barbarism, it won't take us 100,000 years to come to that. If humanity falls to Islam, and all our freedoms are lost, mankind's reversion to barbarism, would perhaps occur within a mere100 years. Under present trends, at some point during this century, the entire world could become Islamic, beginning first with Europe. From there, in a matter of a few centuries, after the world has already succumbed, civilization would not only fall, but would face its ultimate demise, in total cultural annihilation. This is the same fate that has befallen to all previous Islam-subdued civilizations. They were subdued, and then forced into cultural extinction. This obliteration was so complete that virtually little is left to memory. If Islam is not stopped now, what we know today, as culture will vanish. It will be called taghoot (ungodly) and jaheliyah (ignorance) and will be destroyed. Little trace of what is today known as civilization will be left, just as little of the ancient civilizations of Persia and Egypt are left"-Ali Sina
Age
28
Hometown
Santa Cruz
Country
United States
Schools
CHHS
Interests
I am proud to say that my blood is from the two greatest empires to have ever existed. I am italian which means I am Roman and British. I adore the Roman empire and i beleive it to be the greatest empire in the history of man, and the British empire as the second.
Several states have claimed to be the Roman Empire's successor after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. First was the Byzantine Empire, the modern historiographical term used for later period of the Eastern Roman Empire. Then the Holy Roman Empire, an attempt to resurrect the Empire in the West, was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Frankish King Charlemagne as Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades. After the fall of Constantinople, the Russian Tsardom, as inheritor of the Byzantine Empire's Orthodox Christian tradition, counted itself the third Rome (with Constantinople being the second). And when the Ottomans, who based their state on the Byzantine model, took Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II established his capital there and claimed to sit on the throne of the Roman Empire, and he even went so far as to launch an invasion of Italy with the purpose of "re-uniting the Empire", although Papal and Neapolitan armies stopped his march on Rome at Otranto in 1480. Constantinople was not officially renamed Istanbul until March 28, 1930.
Excluding these states claiming its heritage, the Roman state lasted (in some form) from the founding of Rome in 753 BC to the fall in 1461 of the Empire of Trebizond (a successor state and fragment of the Byzantine Empire which escaped conquest by the Ottomans in 1453), for a total of 2,214 years. The Roman impact on Western and Eastern civilizations lives on. In time most of the Roman achievements were duplicated by later civilizations. For example, the technology for cement was rediscovered 1755--1759 by John Smeaton.
