What is Legacy?
In law, a '''legacy''' is something that someone gets by [[inheritance]], or by a [[will (law)|will]].<ref>OED</ref> In [[history|historical]] terms, a '''legacy''' is something that is handed down from one period of time to another period of [[time]]. Often it means something handed down from an ancestor or predecessor. In loose terms, it is sometimes said that countries or [[civilization]] can leave a legacy, such as an idea that will be remembered for a long time. That is clearly an extension of its original meaning(s) which were about individual people. [[The Buddha|Buddha]] [[Confucius]] and other religious and philosophical teachers have left moral legacies. More than 2,000 years ago the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[Mathematician]], [[Euclid|Euclid of Alexandria]], collected and wrote down ideas about [[geometry]] and [[measurement]] in a text called ''Elements''. Students still use these ideas when they learn about [[mathematics]]. Other sciences also owe inherited much from [[Ancient Greece]], and science, in general, is a system of legacies. Greek science developed from [[Ancient Egyptian]] and [[Babylonian]] science, as Islamic science used its legacy rather than those of other cultures. [[Renaissance]] science built on its predecessors, as did modern science. In [[Athens]], [[citizen]]s [[vote]]d on what the city would do. This early form of [[democracy]] is a cultural legacy. [[Ancient Rome]] elected some of their leaders and made [[Roman law]]s that became a legal legacy for later civilizations. Roman and Greek [[architecture]] are also often imitated, as another kind of legacy. Some [[family|families]] pass objects and ideas down from [[generation]] to [[generation]]. These heirlooms and ideas can also be called legacies. It may have to do with a person or many people. [[individual|Individuals]] can leave a historical legacy. Legacy is a similar concept as [[inheritance]] and [[heritage]]. It is something we inherit from past generations and pass to our future generations. Usually, ''herit