How did this rocky wasteland become the creator of Western civilization

>>70528689
t. jelly and butthurt cuck

>>70528689
by being in contact with middle easterners

>>70528689
It had the geographical conditions to produce a thalasocracy

>>70531767
welp he's kinda right tho famalammalamalamalmalamlamlamlamlalmlalalmalalmlalmamlamlam

>>70528689
You asians are not familiar with the Mediterranean climate.

>>70531869
>>70531861

The lesson here is to not cut down all your forests for fuel and building materials.

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>>70531888
:( that hurts my feelings Hans

>>70531923
I am a Greek

Slavery allowed the greek men to only worry about thinking and not working.

>>70528689
this>>70531811

>>70528689
Location, location, location.

For an ancient civilization there is no better place.
>Perfect climate
>all dem islands
>all dat fish
>boating culture
>other peoples to trade with, or war with

The real question is what happened? Why isn't Greece master of the world today?

>>70531938
guten tag

>>70531938
I too am greek

>>70531940
read more about ancient Greece maymun

>>70531990
destroyed by whites

>>70532007
I woke up in shitmany. It is not a gut tag.

>>70532026
why do u live there mangalica

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>>70528689
this is greek people

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>>70532059
this is greek traditional costume

>>70532042
I was born into this shithole to suffer.
People who suffer, value some things more than others.

>>70532059
reminder that most westerners here are actually immigrants

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>>70531990
The fall of most empires and "epic" cultures often coincide with a global cooling. The rise almost always with a warming.

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>>70532078
greek food

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>>70532097
greek menu

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>ITT

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>>70532115
greek dancers

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>>70532059
>that dude with the gorilla arms

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>>70532135
greek musicians

>>70532135
>keeping the turkish hats after occupation
true cuckery

>>70528689
I think this landscape is nice desu
>>70532078
>skirts
the UK should know

Friendly reminder that >30 percent of grecs were actually christian turks

>>70528689
Because it wasn't a rocky wasteland when ancient Greeks first settled there

Southern Europe looks the way it does now due to long and intensive cultivation of those lands. Before humans came there, what is now Greece, Spain etc. was covered by a lush, mainly oak forest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrigue
>Deforestation of the indigenous oak forest since the Late Bronze Age, for cultivation of olives, vines and grain, the introduction of sheep and especially goats and charcoal-making for heat and iron-working, exposed the land surface to weathering and resulted in erosion of the topsoil.[9] The wild garrigue, then, is a man-formed landscape.

>>70532097
σουβλάkι is Greek, just like me

>>70532153
greek national heroes

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>>70532217

>>70528689
eastern influence

" the Greeks never invented anything, but everything they borrowed they improved upon."

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>>70532190

>>70532258

You mean Nordic influence, right?

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>>70532258
reminder that he is not white

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>>70532153
greek folk costume

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>>70532184
and since small to medium scale agriculture isn't profitable anymore the forests are returning to places such as spain, italy and greece.

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>>70532170

>>70532313
Ha

>>70532059
>>70532078
>>70532097
>>70532135
>>70532153
>>70532232
>>70532319
>>70532336
*r*bs

>>70532184
This, it's called ecological amnesia,
in ancient greece it is said mediterranean landscape was covered by forest and did not look like what we know today