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Modern culture and Ancient Greek culture has MANY similarities. If Ancient Greeks didn't exist, our culture would be extremely different. From computers to pianos/organs, the Greeks knew how to invent anything and everything! Strangely, they also face issues on overpopulation.
Just look at how many things they invented....It's hard to believe that this was in the ancient world!
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-53.000 words in the world is Greek of origin. (Greek language today is the richest in the world with over 800.000 words. The number 2 in the world has only 250.000)
-The musical notation system that we use everywhere in the world
-Typography (line length, leading, tracking, point size, typefaces
-Epic poetry
-The science of philosophy
-Humanism
-Democracy
-Development of Mathematics
-Automatic doors
-Diving bells
-First alphabet with vowels
-Hippocratic Oath
-Science of history
-Logic
-Mythology
-Science of Anthropology
-Coined money
-The Olympic games
-Thermometer
-Tumbler Locks
-Central Heating
-Frame harp, Aeolian harp, pan flute
-Catapult
-Crossbow
-Greek Fire
-Geometry
-Invention of the art of Cartography
-First mechanical clock
-Oldest composed musical piece in the world -Seikilos Epitaph
-First Ancient Computer -Antikythera
-The Anchor
-Hula hoop
-Stentorophonic tube
-trireme ships
-Wind power
-Archimedes Steam cannon
-Pizza (greeks taught romans to bake bread, pizza and many other things)
-Science of Geology
-Science of Physics
-Theatre
-Drama and Comedy
-Development of Medicine
-First anatomist
-The education system schools and academies
-The magnet
-First military banners
-The atomic theory by Democritus
-First usage of solar power
-The principles of archimedes
-Geography
-First discovery that the earth was round (eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth)
-The basic principles of electricity (Elektron)
-the cyrillic alphabet
-Byzantine art
-The taximeter Odometer
-Mining
-The first railway
-The first washstand (automatic pleunatic machine)
-The first vending machine (By heron of alexandria
-Plumbing system (plumbing has been invented in Greek minoan time 3750-2000 because)
-Lighthouses
-Condom
-Iron hand
-Levers
-First cookbook in history
-Pantograph
-Parabolic Mirror
-Parchment
-Patent Law system
-Periaktos
-The first alarm clock
-The first clock tower
-The algebra (Dophantus
-The bullfight
-The banking system
-First research centre (with over 500.000 books)
-River deflection
-The first robots
-Roof tiles
-Astronomy
-Screw
-Sea mines
-Shock absorber
-Shower
-Siege machines
-Siren
-Soap
-Water and air pump
-Pythagoras cup of justice
-Radiation weapon
-Golden ratio
-Steam power and steam engine
-Steam rocket (aelopile also known as a hero engine)
-Anemoscope
-Fire exstinguish machine
-Flame thrower
-Astrolabe
-Chewing gum
-City planning
-Coin automat ( it was not reinvented till close 19th century AD)
-Floating bricks
-Compound pulley
-The first cranes
-The dry dock
-Dice and Pessoi) (The dice we use today in numerous games)
-Gears
-Differential gears
-Dioptra
-Electro therapy
-First flying machine
-Science of meteorology (by Aristotle)
-Repeating crossbow
-First evolution theory (by animaxander)
-The first university -The platonic academy
-Greek architecture
-The elevator (by archimedes)
-The tunnel of Eupalinos (The only of 2 known tunnels in history which was excavated from both ends
-The football
-The organ instrument
-The urban planning
-The cannon
-Fire hose
-Greek cuisine
-and Sculpture
Modern culture and Ancient Greek culture has MANY similarities. If Ancient Greeks didn't exist, our culture would be extremely different. From computers to pianos/organs, the Greeks knew how to invent anything and everything! Strangely, they also face issues on overpopulation.
Just look at how many things they invented....It's hard to believe that this was in the ancient world!
Is not their merit, they just benefited from favorable conjucture:
- the geographic proximity to the oldest civilisations on earth, from which they borrowed the basic elements of their culture in late Bronze Age.
- enormous coastline (13,676 km) for a relatively small territory (contemporary Greece: 131,957 km2 / 50,949 sq mi) which provided plenty of gulfs ideal for harbours and lead to great development of sea commerce and the aforementioned contacts with the old civilisations
- situation on the commercial routes between western, central and northern Europe and Mediterranean territories
It is known, e.g., that the Doric Order, the first style of Classic Greek architecture, was adopted after architectural models from the Persian and Anatolian (Phrygian etc) older architectures. there is not any connection between Classic Greek architecture and Minoan architecture.
The Greeks certainly were an astounding 'inventive' culture. Truly they took from their predecessors the Myceneans and Phonecians and added their distinctive experiences of the world and peoples.
They had such great inquiring and curious minds and pushed them on to explore the subtleties within almost every known body of knowledge during their time of centuries. Medicine, politics, the nature of freedom, democracy, religion and philosophy etc etc all were studied. Without a doubt they shaped their age as well as our modern age. We owe them much.
Going to be interesting in what's going to happen 5 , 10 centuries on. Will we still see Greek 'thought' still percolating in civilization? It's held out for quite a bit. But there are new pressures.
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