The Greeks could have ruled the world

The Greeks could have ruled the world...

But Athena lost the praise of the greeks, and instead favored the mighty Anglos

NOTHING LEFT TO CONQUER
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GET TING ON OUR WAY

READY and EAGER

FAWH DA TRIBE

OUR HORSES LUW BLUD

EAGER FOR BLOOD AND BATTLE

No they could not.
Most Greeks relied on slavery and the only people allowed to vote were men who owned land.
While the women (who married) got their husbands wealth when he died fighting other Greeks.
And since Persia was growing large and gaining a military presence Greece was screwed.

>greek barbarians think their extra long sticks can pierce Persian pyjamas

>he doesn't recognize the quote

*blocks your path*

Gods, I hate Gauls

M A R C H ! ! !

Didn't they did it with Alexander

>*routs on impact*
Fixed

Those were the Macedonians, mate.

"The Gods be praised, the enemy general is dead and now his men cant fight us. Fear makes home in our enemies hearts"

But Alexander is dead...

>play Rome: Total War in 2004
>mind is blown away by the expertly crafted setting, the amazing graphics, and the superb gameplay
>come back years later
>it's dated and cheesy
>mfw disillusioned

>Be me
>Start playing Rome: Total War again in 2018
>Still awesome
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So Greeks?

>playing ahistorical arcade shit instead of the superior mod

WRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*cuts through your elite infantry*

Do you know that the Greeks believed that their world and civilization will end because of... Thracians?

*goes through you*

>this dumb bullshit
>he's forced to use cataphracts and pajama troops anyway

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AND SO WE LIVE IN EVIL DAYS

THE MANY MEN OF GREECE HAVE TURNED ON EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF THEIR PROPER ENEMIES!

Reminder that most units in that game were completely fictional

No not really, Hellenized yes, Greeks, no. The ruling dynasty MIGHT have been Greek but hardly conclusive, they may have made that up, the Macedonians were probably related to the Thracians or the Illyrians

>Greek narrator talks as if the Greek world is in constant decline and apathy
>Game starts in 271 BC, which for all intents and purposes the absolute zenith of the Hellenistic period

It was a cool game, but ahistorical as fuck

>game starts in 270 BC
>the Roman factions play like it's simultaneously 219 BC and 45 BC

Macedonians were a greek people you absolute tard

THOSE WHO ENVY ALL THE GREEKS HAVE DONE
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This is so assbackward I don't even know what to say. At best you could claim that the common Macedonian people were mixed with Thracians and Illyrians at the periphery areas of the kingdom, but to claim that the ruling dynasty "might have been Greek" is absurd and straight up revisionism.

Hellenic =/= Hellenistic

Isn't he holding that backwards?

Consider the context that even the Ancient Greeks regarded Macedon as a distinct people.

> for when Alexander chose to contend and entered the lists for that purpose, the Greeks who were to run against him wanted to bar him from the race, saying that the contest should be for Greeks and not for foreigners. Alexander, however, proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek. Hdt. 5.22.2

Earlier Herodotus claims to have proof of their supposed Greekness but never presents it. All we have is a dubious claim that their royal family was supposed to be Greek and even than it was still protested.

Plutarch says this

>I by no means assent to Demaratus of Corinth, who said that those Greeks lost a great satisfaction that did not live to see Alexander sit on the throne of Darius. That sight should rather have drawn tears from them, when they considered that they have left the glory to Alexander and the Macedonians, whilst they spent all their own great commanders in playing them against each other in the fields of Leuctra, Coronea, Corinth, and Arcadia.

Indeed Plutarch is claiming that the Ancient Greeks would've weep if they saw a Macedonian enact revenge against the Persians. Mind you Plutarch was an admirer of Alexander the Great.

Finally Demosthenes outright claims the Macedonians and Philips II are among the worst of the barbarians. (3.16)

The only thing about Macedonians that might have been regarded as Greek might be their ruling dynasty but even that was questioned. In short, no, the Ancient Greeks did not consider Macedonians to be Greeks.

>taking barbarian-calling seriously
Fucking Spartans called the Athenians barbarians during the Peloponnesian war, it was synonymous with being called faggot on Veeky Forums

...but the ukrainians did
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