FashionJunkie
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What are you saying doesn't make any sense. What i said in my first post i explained in the second.
I never said all of medicine is Greek, i said that the terms, words are in greek (prognosis, diagnosis, stenosis, skoliosis, pneumonia, poliomuelitis, orthopedic, pathology, hydropneumothorax, tachycardia etc). That doesn't mean that all medicine is Greek. That's your assumption. But doesn't mean anything to you that even though only in greece they speak greek they use these terms all over the world?
About philosophy read my post again. Greek philosophy stands out because Greeks were the first who went past the "how the world is created" and dedicated their lifes in how to look at life in a bigger sense. That's what philosophy is. The way of thinking, the values of life, the morals. The philosophy others wrote was what the world is. Which is not philosophy. Can't you see the difference?
Still read my post CAREFULLY.
The rise of modern science in Europe, from the ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Other cultures were also quite interested and skilled in astronomy (the Mayans, Egyptians, peoples of India and China come immediately to mind), but the Greeks were the first ones to try to explain how the universe worked in a logical, systematic manner using models and observations. Modern astronomy (and all of science) has its roots in the Greek tradition."
And i said STARTED, i never said all math are greek or all astronomy. Or that they invented EVERYTHING. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ MY POST CAREFULLY.
I only used the word invented when i was talking about democracy. ANCIENT GREEKS CREATED/INVENTED/USED democracy. Period.
Please i didn't post the links just for the sake of it. You should read them.
Truce (in Greek, ekecheiria, which literally means "holding of hands") was announced before and during each of the Olympic festivals, to allow visitors to travel safely to Olympia. An inscription describing the truce was written on a bronze discus which was displayed at Olympia. During the truce, wars were suspended, armies were prohibited from entering Elis or threatening the Games, and legal disputes and the carrying out of death penalties were forbidden.
Ancient Greece was extremely powerful, they did amazing things and the fact that i hear greek words everywhere, even though ONLY in Greece they speak Greek, means a lot. The fact that one civilisation offered a lot doesn't mean that others civilisations don't exist. And we are not debating about who is the best, we were talking about some facts. It's my opinion that Ancient Greece was the best civilisation. You have your opinion about the Greeks, i have mine. After all we have democracy (thanks to the Greeks)...
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. But Ancient Greeks 
i respect them and admire them to death. 
other traditions attach no importance to them. Not to mention that the states of ancient Greece did their fair share of killing.
