Childhood is idolizing ancient Greece

Childhood is idolizing ancient Greece

Adulthood is realizing the ancient Near East is more interesting

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

All the ancient Mesopotamian empires are patrician

Greece is near east

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

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

*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.

Retard alert

Ancient Greece was culturally Middle Eastern

Cyprus is literally just off the coast of Lebanon.

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

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

Cyprus isn't Greece. They're hellenized levantines

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

Adulthood is realizing Byzantine Greece is more interesting

Eastern Mediterranean

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

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

>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.

Romans had already defeated the Etruscans by that time

>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.

No, the near east is Greek

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.

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

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

The Minoans were influenced by the near east

The Carthaginians were merchants not warriors

But Greece was part of the Near east

Patrician

>Hannibal
>King
>Black