I think we can all agree with this

by FairytaleOfBliss

36 comments

  1. So the guys who developed the tech and knowledge yall needed to go and colonize everyone else made no ancient contributions for Europe?

  4. Define ancient because some of our shit go back pretty far

  5. Technically the Romans got their shields and helmets from Gaul…

  6. I don’t know why Belgium still persists in European mythology.  We don’t believe in witches. Why in Belgians?

  9. I’d like to make a case for Belgiums as a country with quite a few recent contributions to European culture but I’m too lazy to do so.

  10. The only thing that graph shows is the evident truth:

    Neither Switzerland or the nordics are western european.

  11. No ancient contributions? We kicked Luigi’s ass that’s our contribution.

  14. what! We do stuff, it’s just stuff you take for granted and don’t realize comes from here

  16. We have, 2 if the greatest emperors are from our land and The 2nd punic war started thanks to Saguntum

  17. You guys say, that we don’t care about the opposite sex? Georgios Papanikolaou in the 1920’s created the Pap smear. To this day, it’s saving women from cervical cancer.

    Also, every 4 years you come on this sub, to compare medals on the most prestigious sports event. Just remember that the first modern Olympics were held in Athens 1896. The Olympic Committee was founded by a Greek and a French guy, with the first president being Greek.

  18. Nice attempt to rewrite history. There would be no EU without Belgium. They together with first Luxemburg and then The Netherlands started it all.

  19. Lusitanian warfare defined guerrilla fighting.

    Iberian metalwork techniques (mostly in what is now Spain but a bit in Portugal too) shaped metalwork throughout the Roman Empire.

    The gladius is based off of iberian swords.

    Idk what else but these have to count at least as a B for effort.

  20. *No recent contribution?*

    Guglielmo Marconi (Radio & Telegraph)

    Alessandro Volta (Battery)

    Federico Faggin (Microchips)

    Antonio Meucci (telephone)

    Pellegrino Turri (typewriter, carbon paper)

    Luigi Palmieri (Seismometer)

    Pacinotti (Dynamo)

    Battista Lippis (Torpedo)

    Corradino D’Ascanio (Helicopter)

    Enrico Fermi (Nuclear reactor)

    Amerigo Cei-Rigotti (Automatic rifle)

    Pier Giorgio Perotto (Programmable calculator)

    Angelo Moriondo (Espresso Machine)

    Film Festivals (the first one was the Venice Film Festival in 1932)

    Italo Marchioni (Gelato)

    Galileo Ferraris (induction motor)

    Candido Jacuzzi (Jacuzzi)

    Tecnica company (Moon Boot)

    Giulio Natta (Polypropylene)

    Tullio Campagnolo (Quick release skewer)

    Ettore Bellini (Radiogoniometer)

    Angelo Secchi (Secchi disk)

    Telecom (Pre-paid phone card)

    Vincenzo Lancia (Unibody car chassis)

    Vitale Bramani (Vibram)

    Vincenzo Tiberio (Antibiotics)

    Giorgio Fischer (Lyposuction)

    Rita Levi-Montalcini (Nerve Growth Factor)

    Italian Navy (Frogmen)

    Italian Army (Alpini – mountain troops)

    Ferrero (Nutella)

    *Barry, are you alright? I think you had too many pints.*

    Edit: I fucked up the Torpedo’s inventor name. The correct one is Giovanni Biagio Luppis. Not Battista Lippis.

  21. Italians have a lot of recent contributions though.

    Radio

    Galileo

    Da Vinci

    Nuclear Reactor

    Plastic (probably a massive mistake for humanity but still a smart invention)

  22. All right that´s inough! I´m taking away your Tintin comics until you learn to appreciate them.

  23. How come we don’t have any recent contributions?! CR7 is only 39 years old…

  24. We have no contributions to such a degree that we are not even included.

  26. Yet we still have the eu capital right smack in the middle of our country, you hate us so much that you love us, don’t have to deny it, we know it

  30. Fucking hell we invented fascism! No recent contribution my ass

  32. EXCUSE ME, we were literally splitting the world in half with our hermanos before some of you had solid borders!!! Outrageous.

  33. The theory of the Big Bang was originally published by a Belgian, but ok…

  34. We contributed a lot to the roman Empire by being worthless and a pain in the ass with a few good slaves.

    That’s something

  35. Idk man, the Brits were the first nation to put into writing that the law reigns supreme over any ruler.

  36. Mad hoes you all jealous because our legacies will live forever while most of you will be known as war criminals

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