Why was Ancient Greek culture so important?

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>>1781182
B/c demograsy xDDD

because people don't care about the sumerians for whatever reason

>>1781182
Because enlightenment era European philosophers decided it is and retroactively created a "western culture" that was born in Greece even though during that time Western Europe was mostly christian tyrannical monarchies not at all related to Ancient Greece.

Don't get me wrong, Ancient Greece and their works were extremely important stepping stones for all of Mediterranean civilisations including Arabs but so were achievements of Babylonians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians. The reason why Ancient Greece is put ahead of them is classification of what is western civilisation and where it originated from.

>>1781194

Because no-one knew about them until they were rediscovered by the Victorians

>>1781182

First unambiguously "European" civilisation.

The late iron age and early classical period was a period of rapid change and Athens was a large trade center of the Mediterranean during this time.