How the Greeks changed the world
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The Classical Miracle of the Greeks
Greeks had this heritage that came filtered through an oral tradition and the canara of the of the mystery, of oe past. They already had that in their kind of culture, a dna. The other thing, more than anything, really affected the way in which they organized their society was this remarkable fact that they were great at seafaring. And it seems to have been the case at this that the people who lived in the hinterlands of to day's russia and europe and north africa were mostly not advanced or complex societies at all.
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