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There seem to be a lot of confusion amongst today's Greeks and what they are. Some Greeks say they are Ancient Greek and some Greeks say they are Roman and heir to Byzantine Empire. They can't be all at once and at the same time.
The Romans from Rome conquered ANCIENT Greeks who achieved a lot in a lot of fields and incorperated their knowledge and culture into the body of the Roman Empire. All adult men in Ancient Greece were killed and all females inseminated by Roman soldiers since rape war inherent part of war back then. It is true that Rome got influenced by Greek culture who in return got it from the older Middle-eastern Ancient civilizations.
Also some Greeks claim Ancient Anatolian peoples such as Hittite, Trojans, Lydian and others as their own. So it seems today's Greeks are very confused. The truth is probably that Greeks got influenced by the former mentioned but that doesn't mean that those peoples were Greek. They were much older civilization and achieved much more in all fields of sciences. That the Romans got influenced by ANCIENT Greeks (not today's so-called Greeks) doesn't make Romans Greek either.
First of all we should question what % of today's so-called Greeks are really related to the once so great Ancient Greeks. Some Greeks on this forum say they are pure but is this possible after so many invasions? Most of today's Greeks are just assimilated Albanians, Gypsies, Slav and baptized Turks from Anatolia. How can we know this? In Ottoman Greece only 40% identified as "Greek" the remaining were various minorities who were indoctrinated by Greek state and schools after their independence from Ottoman Empire. Also there were numerous other invasions such as the Crusaders who raped everything with two legs and others such as the Huns, Bulgars and others. So the question remains. What is a Greek?
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