Childhood is idolizing ancient Greece Adulthood is realizing

>>2636083
Wisdom is realising the two are inextricably linked, from language to culture.

>>2636083
All the ancient Mesopotamian empires are patrician

Greece is near east

>>2636083
Sagacity is focusing on the Greeks simply because there's more literature available on the subject.

>>2636108
No, it's not. It's Mediterranean.

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*blocks your path*

Ancient Greeks were far more Near Eastern than they were 'Westerners'. There's a reason Alexander never even once thought of conquering north or west - it was just a bunch of uncivilised, unlettered barbarians.

>>2636141
Retard alert

Ancient Greece was culturally Middle Eastern

>>2636141
Cyprus is literally just off the coast of Lebanon.

>>2636147
No, he didn't conqer west because the Romans would have mooped the floor with him.

>>2636152
Cyprus isn't Greece you retarded fuck, it's Levantines raped by Greeks, Turks and a shit ton of other ethnicities

>>2636152
Cyprus isn't Greece. They're hellenized levantines

>>2636149
>culturally
Then fucking say it was in a cultural context next time, you blithering moron.

>>2636083
Adulthood is realizing Byzantine Greece is more interesting

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>>2636141
Eastern Mediterranean

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Where do I start with the Assyrians? They're the coolest, right? Do I just straight to Neo-Assyria?

>>2636156
>A shitty city state alliance with barely 10,000 troops

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>>2636156
>the Romans would have mooped the floor with him.
>In 323 BC at the latest.
Fucking kek, the Etruscans would have been a bigger threat at the time.

>>2636185
Romans had already defeated the Etruscans by that time

>>2636149
>Ancient Greece was culturally Middle Eastern
That depends on what you mean by "Ancient Greece". Classical Greece was mainly influenced by the Mycenaeans, who themselves were influenced by the Minoans.

You could make a case about Hellenistic Greece having Middle Eastern propensities, though.

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>>2636108
No, the near east is Greek

>>2636217
Defeated, but not conquered. In fact a few years later the Romans had their asses handed to them in a battle with the Samnites. They were growing in power sure, but I seriously doubt they could have stood up to Alexander at his zenith.

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>>2636156
>>2636147
Actually he didn't go west because the Carthaginians would've crushed him. That's why he stopped at Egypt

>>2636239
Carthacucks were always horrible at war and couldn't even fully conquer Sicily or Sardinia

>>2636218
The Minoans were influenced by the near east

>>2636248
The Carthaginians were merchants not warriors

>>2636083
But Greece was part of the Near east

>>2636087
Patrician

>>2636239
>Hannibal
>King
>Black