So the question of Greece

>>2296263
in most cases, no. There have been influences in mathematics, for example, but they were advanced by them, not simply stolen

>>2296263
After the Bronze age collapse Phoenicians largely opened up the path for near eastern influence on the Greeks with their trade routes. Prior to the Bronze age collapse, early Greeks like the Myceneans were influenced by the Minoans who in turn were influenced by Egypt.

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Depends on what you mean by "Greece". To an ancient Greek, "Greece" was anywhere that there were people speaking Greek. In Hellenistic and Roman times, that meant colonies all over the Black Sea and northern Mediterranean, as well as the ruling classes in Syria and Egypt.

What I'm saying is that "Greece" was pretty well the whole Mediterranean, linked by the lingua franca, Greek. It became one culture under Rome, and all educated Romans spoke Greek among the ruling class. Any educated person at that time might be called a "Greek", if he could write in the language understood by all educated people.

>>2296756
>ethnicity didn't exist in the past myth
no.

>>2296263
That's not true at all.

Influenced, not stole.

>>2296761
No one is saying ethnicity didn't exist, but the nationality "Greek", as we think of it today, with its geographic definition by a nation/state, definitely did not exist.

Calling someone "Greek" simply meant he spoke Greek.

Greek mathematics was much more advanced than both Egyptian and Babylonian math

Egyptians tended to use math as a practical tool

The Greeks would think of math at a much more philosophical level than any civilization before them