Did human civilization peak with the greeks?

No. It peaked with The Third Reich

no it was us Romans, had the German Barbarians and Christianity not ruined our empire we would of had space colonies by the 1800s

Societies don't develop in a vacuum and anyone claiming that Europe has always been the peak of human civilization is a fucking jackass. Civilization reached Europe later, and they adapted the tools already available to them from previous civilizations, because why wouldn't you.

I don't believe Europeans developed shit later than in the fertile crescent because of inferior genetics for the same reason I don't think Africa is a revolting shithole because of inferior genetics, there are many factors at play that will determine the degree to which a civilization will flourish or fail, and there is no one single chain of 'progress'.

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it waxed and waned with the greeks

No, of course not. What kind of a stupid question is that?

It hasn't even peaked yet

Literally the only good thing about the third reich was the aesthetics

Human civilizations have always had their ups and downs. In terms of European civilizations, the Baroque might be considered the peak of European sculptural mastery.

Modernist trash

>95% of slaves
>"peak"

polytheistic Rome. Rome died with Julian in 363, everything after was RINO.

It peaked during the 19th century and ever since 1914 its been tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down

>19th
Try early 18th. 19th century was already a full decline, read Spengler.

Nah. It's now.
Your quality of life, literacy, critical thinking, knowledge, etc. are all vastly superior to previous society. Maybe canvas art and sculpture will be criticized for a while but architecture will likely go the way of Gothic. Give it a few centuries and we'll be romanticized by our own -boos. That's how it's always been and always will be.

Shitpost.

In many areas, yes, it peaked with the Greeks. Similarly, other fields peaked with Chinese. So, it is more accurate to say that our future society should seek to create some sort of Sino-Hellenic model.

Basically, humanity in general achieved its highest state in many respects from the 5th through 3rd c. BCE. In regards to Hellas, specifically, much of it was achieved in the 4th century.

We're in our peak now bruv

It peaked in the 1960s-1970s.

Real wages in the richest nations have stagnated since then, showing zero growth.
We reached the Moon, and never returned.
Achieved regular Supersonic flight with the Concorde, which last flew in 1998.
Social inequality has increased.
Advances in modern medicine have been offset by the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Half of the world (Africa and the USSR) has seen their living standards collapse.
Birth rates dipped below replacement rate in numerous countries. And this is not getting into the thorny debate of whether average IQ scores have been dropping or not.

The West, if not the entire world, has been facing protracted structural decline since the early 1970s and only fanatics or clueless simpletons would deny its extent.