>>16102310>Before that it was barbarians scraping in the mud.Tell us the formula for Roman concrete.
>you can'tBecause it was lost by the christian destruction of classical civilization. That's why it took 1000 more years to recover anything resembling the technology, learning, or art of the classical era. All science from the classical era, including steam power and atomic theory, burned with the library at Alexandria, and any attempt to recover it was suppressed by the church as "witch craft". So what "high culture" are you even talking about?