So lemme get this straight: the Greeks came up with the logic spark, before then people were "animals"...

So lemme get this straight: the Greeks came up with the logic spark, before then people were "animals", or as I prefer saying "educated animals", it was only thanks to the European Greeks that philosophy, science truth, logos seeking religions (Christianity) were born

My question is: "why?"

Why Greece?

Ok superior brain, ok superior IQ, but just that? I find it hard to beleive

From animals to human beings just like that?

Before the Greeks people didn't fucking thing at all and it leaves me amazed, they were like ants even the "civilized" ones (don't believe when they say civilized because it comes from poleis which is a Greek word)

But why?

The soul was born European Greeks?

I don't get it but other people didn't have it that's for sure because true realism, philosophy and sound logic comes from the Greeks

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No sweetie it was thanks to a Phoenician

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus

>Thales of Miletus (/ˈθeJliːz/; Greek: Θαλῆς (ὁ Μῑλήσιος), Thalēs; c. 624 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor (present-day Milet in Turkey). He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition,[1][2] and he is otherwise historically recognized as the first individual in Western civilization known to have entertained and engaged in scientific philosophy.[3][4]

>The current historical consensus is that Thales was born in the city of Miletus around the mid 620s BC from Phoenician parents[6], although some historians say he was a Phoenician who emigrated to Miletus with his parents

Interesting question.

>Ok superior brain, ok superior IQ

Probably not just this. There's no reason to suggest why the IQ of Ancient Greeks at the time would be superior to that of the Egyptians, Achaemenids, or even just Greek city states that did not produce significant works of philosophy.

I would suggest that one reason why philosophy flourished in Greece was that the Greek religion was not incredibly dogmatic. When we talk of "Greek Philosophy", what we are really talking about is intellectuals rejecting the status quo explanation of reality and morality. I'm aware that Socrates was executed for doing this, but maybe worse things would happen to him in other states at the time for "corrupting the youth" and mocking the Gods.

The Greek culture was also not agrarian and lived in huge cosmopolitan population centres, e.g. Athens in the 5th century is estimated to have had a population of somewhere between 300-400 thousand people livingi n it, including slaves. On top of that the Greeks, being sea-farers, were in constant contact with a great deal many more cultures, from the Celts in Narbonsis, to the steppe tribesman in the Bosporon Kingdom. These peoples as well as the civilized Empires in the Middle East and North Africa.

Like Lord Clarke said, the greatest strides made for civilization occur during periods of internationalism.

>Greeks came up with the logic spark, before then people were "animals", or as I prefer saying "educated animals", it was only thanks to the European Greeks that philosophy, science truth, logos seeking religions (Christianity) were born
No.
So much is wrong with this.

The Greeks original thing was Philosophy and the idea of the Academy (schools).

Greeks copied Arabic Arithmetic after Alexander did his thing and built on it
creating geometry, number theory and basic calculus.

Christianity comes from Judaism and that comes from Zoroastrianism.
That had nothing to do with the Greeks. The Greeks were hardcore Pagan but Philosophy would more accurately be what they believed in.

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>Greeks copied Arabic Arithmetic after Alexander did his thing

>Greeks copied Arabic Arithmetic after Alexander did his thing and built on it

>That meme
>In the current year

>science truth, logos seeking religions (Christianity)
Lol what? Christianity cam from Jews and supplanted itself onto the Greeks. If anything Christianity murdered Neo-Platoism (which is kinda of the 'logos seeking religions) and wore its skin.

I would guess that perhaps Socrates/Plato sparked the inquisitiveness of the Greeks?

>Greeks copied Arabic Arithmetic after Alexander did his thing and built on it
creating geometry, number theory and basic calculus.
No... no. No. "Arabs" at this time were illiterate desert nomads living exclusively on the Arabian peninsula. The only urbanised areas were in Oman and Yemen, who wouldn't have reason to be in serious contact with the Greeks.

The Greeks had made their own strides in mathematics, e.g. with Pythagoras and his contemporaries as well as predecessors. There's no doubt the Greeks learnt a great deal about mathematics from other cultures, e.g. the Egyptians, but definitely not the Arabs.

Arabic Mathematics came much later, in the Early Middle Ages.

>Christianity comes from Judaism and that comes from Zoroastrianism.
This isn't entirely accurate either. The roots of Zoroastrianism come from the Bronze Ages but Zoroaster was a man living in the 6th century BC. Many aspects of Judaism come from Mesopotamian religion & folklore, such as the Genesis which is basically Sumerian and Babylonian mythology.