What the Ancients Knew - Greece
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The Western world is built on the wisdom and traditions of the ancient Greeks, who uncovered the fundamental principles that established the basics of modern technology. Explore their contributions to geometry, astronomy, and physics and take a close-up look at how they applied their knowledge: Thales predicted an eclipse, Pythagoras discovered mathematical correlation between a musical instrument's string length and its tone, Archimedes developed laws of mechanics, and a group of 90 priests made well-informed educated guesses about many things. Hosted by Jack Turner. Published by Discovery Channel, 2008.
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Not sure why Greece is considered the birthplace of western civilization, but whatever.
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This whole documentary is a lie enough said. Show me one school before the moors came to Spain. I'll answer it for you it doesn't exist. Oh you don't have to believe me just look at the roman accounts of Europe before their decline. The Grecians didn't even have a written language during the period he's referring to. smh ridiculous...
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*out
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that Pythagoras....
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Beautiful Greece. I always wanted to visit the ancient sites.
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What the greeks knew? Well, let me think..
Odometer, aeolipile, Colossus of Rhodes, Architas'pigeon, polybolos, soft-air ballista, periaktos, Antikythera mechanism, linothorax, puzzle (game), anglemetre, screw cutter, mechanism to regulate the start of chariots in race, syringe, dry docks, floating bricks, parabolic mirrors, pantographs and pointing machines, roof tiles, spiral staicases, sambuca siege engine, differential gears, nautical odometre, dioptra, asteriskos and other surveying instruments, cranes, washstand, elevator, camera obscura, plumbing sistem, corvus device, chewing gum, underfoor heating, torsion artillery, shock-absorber, stentophoric tube, water locks, hula hoop, soldering of iron, oldest musical composition in the world,showers, calipers, fire hoses, flametrowers, linothorax, phalanx, automata, water clocks, Archimedes'ray, Archimedes'claw, elepolis, alarm siren, syrakousia, tessarakontres, leontophoros, vending machine' wind-powered organ, water-powered organ, Hero's device to open the doors of temples, Pharos, pulley, crane, watermills, diving bell, using eletric rays to numb the pain in physical operations, optical refinements for temples, water-flush toilet, Archimedes'screw, universal joint, gimbal, fore-and-aft rig, lateen sail, altimetre, weather vane, planetary system simulator, hydraulic telegraph of Aeneas, steam cannon, crank handle, siphon, crossbow, wheelbarrow, railway, proper anchors, forced-air pump, Pythagoras'cup, thermometer,chain drive,astrolabe,floating bridge, 40 metres-high siege tower covered in iron plates moved by an internal device and armed with 20 ballistai, innovative communication system via beacons, advanced plumbing syste with ventilating shafts, library of Alexandria, patent law, subside for disables, democracy, possibility of criticizing and removing your leaders, impressive architectural feats, evolution theories, studies on electricity, meteorology, great progresses in medicine, algebra, physics, geology and mathematics alike, urban planning, Erathostenes's calculation of the earth's circumference, philosophy and all the various accademies, universities and schools of thought, one of highest (if not the highest) literacy rate in the ancient world, coin money (though this is disputed), geographical explorations, carthography, studies on logic, theatre, anatomism, countless scientific discoveries, olympics, atomistic theory, first coockbook in history, flourishing of arts, historiography, hippocratic oath, musical notation sistem, rhetoric, home to some of the finest, most technologically advanced and efficient armies of the ancient world, bedrock of western civilization, influence on islamic civilization, on Persia, on India, on buddhism, christianity and islam alike, just to name a few things. -
These are Turks shown -in the video. The last Greek Ionians fled back to Greece in1922 as refugees
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Wait a minute mr.post man
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the phoenician alphabet was made by greeks as the latin also.its time you speak the truth in your documentaries!
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ΑΠ ΤΙΣ ΛΙΓΕΣ ΧΩΡΕΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΙΑΤΗΡΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΑΛΦΑΒΗΤΟ ΤΗΣ .
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Ύδωρ θολερόν και απαίδευτον ψυχήν ου δει ταράττειν.
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We still don´t really know where we come from and where things go. Though a lot of stuff, it seems, passes through Panama.
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4,000 slaves won't help you dig a tunnel ( @ 11:30 ) 5ft wide, how many men can dig and chisel at one time? Probably 4 max, 2 on each end. And at the slow rate of chiseling away through a mountain, I can see no advantage of the use of more than 10 more men for hauling away the debris.
Where in the hell are you going to put 4,000 " slaves " to work creating a 5 ft wide tunnel? Seems to be the reoccurring answer from all modern academia in regards to insulting the high level genius and high technology of the ancients. " Slaves, and a bunch of them "
If anyone figures out how 4 or 5 men at a time dug this tunnel in the amount of time it was accomplished, or how to make use of 4,000 slaves, please let me know... -
The original Greeks were the African/Pelasgian people!
Archaeologist Manfred Bietak conducted extensive research on ancient Greek civilizations and their connections to ancient Egypt. Bietak unearthed evidence from artwork as early as 7000 B.C. that depicts the early people inhabiting Greece were of African descent.
The Minoan culture of Ancient Greece reached its peak at about 1600 B.C. They were known for their vibrant cities, opulent palaces and established trade connections. Minoan artwork is recognized as a major era of visual achievement in art history. Pottery, sculptures and frescoes from the Minoan Bronze age grace museum displays all over the world. Palace ruins indicate remnants of paved roads and piped water systems.
A common assumption is that ancient Greeks were an ethnically homogeneous population. Black Athena author Martin Bernal challenged this view in his three-volume work arguing the tidal wave of racist ideology that swept over northern Europe at the end of the 18th century and onward, led to to a denial of the strong African and Semetic influence on Greek civilization.
Bernal rejected what he called the “Aryan model,” the idea that Greek civilization was founded by Indo-European settlers from Central Europe. The theory, argued Bernal, became generally accepted during the 19th century. He instead agreed with what he called the “Ancient model;” referring to the fact that both Egyptian and Phoenician influences on the Greek world were widely accepted in Antiquity.
Historian Clyde Winters argues that Blacks in ancient Greece were not just slaves, but rather the true founders of Grecian civilization. He concluded there is no way it can be proven that Indo-European Greeks have always been in Greece and numerous archaeologist have found abundant evidence of Egyptians settled in Greece long before the coming of the Indo-European-Aryans to Anatolia.
A 2001 genetic study out of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid also concluded that modern Greeks had African origins and were genetically closer to Ethiopian/sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean groups such as Macedonians, Iberians (including Basques), North Africans, Italians, French, Cretans, Jews, Lebanese, Turks (Anatolians), Armenians and Iranians.
Ancient Artifacts found on Crete in Greece That proves Ancient Africans settled there first before white people even existed!
Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected.
That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring in the Mediterranean and cause for rethinking the maritime capabilities of prehuman cultures.
Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say. Previous artifact discoveries had shown people reaching Cyprus, a few other Greek islands and possibly Sardinia no earlier than 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The oldest established early marine travel anywhere was the sea-crossing migration of anatomically modern Homo sapiens to Australia, beginning about 60,000 years ago. There is also a suggestive trickle of evidence, notably the skeletons and artifacts on the Indonesian island of Flores, of more ancient hominids making their way by water to new habitats.
Even more intriguing, the archaeologists who found the tools on Crete noted that the style of the hand axes suggested that they could be up to 700,000 years old. That may be a stretch, they conceded, but the tools resemble artifacts from the stone technology known as Acheulean, which originated with prehuman populations in Africa.
More than 2,000 stone artifacts, including the hand axes, were collected on the southwestern shore of Crete, near the town of Plakias, by a team led by Thomas F. Strasser and Eleni Panagopoulou. She is with the Greek Ministry of Culture and he is an associate professor of art history at Providence College in Rhode Island. They were assisted by Greek and American geologists and archaeologists, including Curtis Runnels of Boston University. -
thalees sounds like an ancient rockafella...and a nabatean.
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they .....then and now ....really neglected their artesans.....personally i think they had persians (sail in sail out) builders ....like how the second temple in jerusalem was built.....whilst keeping a maintainance team of locals at the ready.
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old greeks =pelazgian illyricum .... new greeks =albanos and turks orthodox . greec is not a nation greece is a new state .
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These people 1:35 are Turks and not Ionian Greeks. The Turks migrated in this area around the 10th AD, and gradually displaced the Greeks, until during the 20th century with a massive genocide (1920s - about 800,000 Greeks were slaughtered and forced to walk until death, or died of unseen barbaric tortures) and a massive pogrom (1960s), only a handful of Greeks remained, after a 3,000 years of presence in this region. So, these are surely not Greeks and ancestors of the Ionians.
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The facts are vastly different and radically speak against any such revisionist thinking. The Greek city of Thebes was founded by two brothers, Amphion and Zethos. They were claimed to be the sons of Zeus, with a mortal, known as Antiope. It was a typically Egyptian concept for the king to state that he was born of god. This was purely symbolic – but it should be realised that it was symbolic for the ancient Greeks also.
In 1971, Greek archaeologist Theodore Spyropoulos began his dig on the Amphion hill, which was the legendary burial place of the twins. He soon discovered a stone chamber, deep within the funerary mound. It contained jewellery, including four golden hangers in the shape of lilies… a typically Egyptian motif. He also discovered a vaulted tunnel that ran in several directions. Spyropoulos labelled it a “typically Egyptian tomb”. Further research showed that the tomb dated back to 2900-2400 BC, placing this Greek discovery as a veritable anomaly: there was no Greek civilization at this time… though there was already an Egyptian civilization.
It was not the first archaeological discovery that showed such evidence. Greek legend holds that an Egyptian king Danaos landed in Apobathmi, in the Peloponnesus with a great fleet. He made himself ruler and ordered the natives to call themselves "Danaans". Homer states that the Greeks do not call themselves Greeks or Hellenes, but Danaans. Coincidence? In Graeco-Roman times, tourists made pilgrimages to Apobathmi and even went as far as to argue that the exact date of the landing can be dated to 1511 BC, using an inscription on the Parian Marble.
Several Egyptian pharaohs claimed ownership over “Haunebut”, which means "Behind the Islands." The Greek portion of the Rosetta Stone text clearly translates the phrase Haunebu – meaning "the people of Haunebut" – as Greek or Hellene. And Greece does lie "behind the islands" of the Aegean Sea, when viewed from Egypt. Thutmosis III boasted that he had "trussed… the Haunebut" and struck those that lived "in the midst of the Great Green Sea" (the Mediterranean Sea). In a single year, he claimed to have collected 36,692 deben of gold from his conquered subjects – the equivalent of three metric tons – of which 27,000 kilos is specifically said to have come from the Asian provinces and the Isles in the Midst of the Great Green Sea (the Greek islands).
In 1946, Spyridon Marinatos, best known for his work on Thera (Akrotiri), had found a series of grain silos in Boiotia. Marinatos also believed that the Mycenaeans helped the Egyptians to expel the Hyksos and were rewarded with the gold that has been found in the so-called shaft tombs in Mycenae. These tombs date from the first 80 years after the expulsion of the Hyksos. Some tombs show Egyptian influences, although the Mycenaeans were much more careless with their dead than the Egyptians. On the topic of the grain silos, Marinatos stated that they greatly resembled Egyptian silos. Of course, his colleagues were unable to accept such a comparison.
One of these silos measured 30 metres high and 100 metres wide. The entire grain production of Argolid could be stored in this complex; only an organised state could and would resort to such a mechanism. But Greece did not have an organised state when the silos were built and used. The logical conclusion that the Greek land was used as a supply of grain that was exported to Egypt was “of course” impossible, for we all “know” that Greece’s cultural development was completely independent of anything that happened anywhere else in the world… -
Who created the “veil of ignorance” that guards over the separation of ancient Greece and Egypt as a scientific Iron Curtain? The answer is to be found at the end of the 19th century, and the racial situation of that era. The central question is what race the ancient Egyptians were. The relationship between blacks and white Europeans was a powerful social issue in the United States and Great Britain; in 1879, Britain ruled one quarter of the world. It was at this time that scholars began to awaken to the realization that the Egyptians possessed a powerful culture; it was at this time that Greece was identified as the cradle of western civilization. It were largely white scholars who would do anything to make sure that blacks would find no place in history… after all, it could lead to serious social consequences. Blacks surely could never be at the roots of that wonderful Greek civilization? That “had” to be erroneous. It was simply impossible…
However, the argument was difficult to maintain, and even the myth of Atlantis was called into play to try and salvage the problematic situation: if Atlantis had existed, it would have been a “white race”, and it was this “white race” that had settled into Egypt and had given the native black people its civilization, its culture and its philosophy. Problem solved…
This attitude is the opposite of the Greek attitude, however difficult it is to believe, after more than a century of brainwashing about ancient Greek thinking. The Greeks had no problem in stating their knowledge originated from an African origin; nowhere do they make references to “white deities” or “white leaders” amongst the black culture that gave them their philosophy.
Poe and other analysts argue that modern archaeology, shaped as it is by western thinking, cannot live with the concept that the Greek culture – and western civilization as a whole – is a legacy of black Egypt. This has resulted in almost hilarious debates as to how the ancient Egyptians could not possibly be African – or a more general attitude that seems to prevail today, which leaves their racial identity unspecified. After all, the Arab race is now the predominant race in Egypt (specifically in the north), and references such as “our ancestors” often imply that the ancient Egyptians were Arabs.
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