Comments by "Ayodeji Olowokere" (@ayodejiolowokere1076) on "The tragic myth of the Sun God's son - Iseult Gillespie" video.

@Z1BABOUINOS 5 000 years? You need to pause and think. Nobody outside the Western World knew any Greek myth before colonialism. You're being obnoxious at the expense of commonsense. What does politics have to do with this? Oh my goodness.
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@Z1BABOUINOS Western colonialism subdued the world. That's why Greco-Roman myths are more widely known.
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@Z1BABOUINOS Changed goalposts. You just admitted conquest spread Greek culture. Secondly, Greece was the first major Western civilization, of course its culture would spread to the rest of Europe. Western Europe then colonized the world. Everything else you typed is irrelevant.
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@Z1BABOUINOS The Western World at the time was just one of many regions of unexceptional note and Italy was not the world. At the time, Greece was the most advanced culture in Europe so the Romans adopted much of their culture. In the same way Japanese, Vietnamese and Koreans adopted Chinese culture. The fact that Chinese culture was spread by the Japanese to the Philippines and the US is not because it's superior to German but because Japanese spread it. The fact Greek myths were carried by the descendants of Roman civilization is because by chance they spread it. Your claim that it spread because of its excellence is complete ethnocentric nonsense and sure enough, you're a Greek. So I guess when Zoroastrianism was more more widespread in the ancient world than Greek culture it was superior to Greek culture. And the fact that Islam has supplanted the holy Christian faith and Greek culture in North Africa and the Middle East is proof of a ridiculous claim your logic suggests. Ridiculous.
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@Z1BABOUINOS and insisting I'm an American liberal, while constantly hammering with buzzwords is just proof you're a very childish person. And a very irritating one I might add.
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@Z1BABOUINOS wow.
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@puneetmishra4726 the Muslims conquered two-thirds of the Greek speaking Byzantine Empire. That's different, it didn't spread, invaders moved into the Greek speaking world.
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@puneetmishra4726 North Africa and Syria were Greek speaking. Greek was the lingua franca, for goodness sake to this very day a few of the biggest cities in North Africa are Tripoli and Alexandria. These are Greek names and former cultural centers.
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@puneetmishra4726 It was the language of the elite, it was the language of learning and trade, and a dominant minority. Furthermore, the Islamic Golden Age was brought about by studying Greek text, after the conquest of hitherto Greek ruled lands. So yes, it was by moving into the Greek cultural sphere.
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@puneetmishra4726 Greek was already the language of science following the Macedonian Conquests throughout the ancient world. I read up on the influence on Greek on the Islamic world and Khosrow I. Unless, I'm mistaken the two sources, one of which admittedly was Wikipedia, said you're correct that the Islamic Golden Age was not inspired by exposure to Greek texts but it was not by Persians either. It was the Abbasid Caliphate's security and wealth that prompted learning. The ancient Greek texts were studied along with Sanskrit and others. I admit I was mistaken that Greek culture did not prompt the Islamic Golden Age but Greek was already the language of scholarship throughout the Byzantine Empire and Persia as a result of past conquests. Whatever the case, the mass exposure to Greek culture and ancient sources was as a result of conquests by the Caliphates of erstwhile Greek imperial outposts.
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@swaminim7058 Indus Valley Civilization died out with no descendants.
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