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How the Greeks changed the world

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The Ancient Greeks and the Greeks

A lot of the words we use to day, am a huge amount of medical tech, technical vocabulary, actually is is greek. The city plans of melbourne and adelaide in australia are follow a grid pattern that was revived in the eighteenth and only nineteenth century when it's first spread around the world by the macedonians who followed alexander the great. Greeks, greek ship owners, apparently, own the largest share of world cargo shipping of any single iden able national group in the world. Its something like 17 % of world cargoShipping is greek own. And idigous statistical check, that is approximately 100 times the proportion of the greek population

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