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It is inconceivable
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the Greeks could have developed a civilization
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that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations
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and learned a great deal from them.
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Now, people--some people make an enormous jump from that and
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wrongly suggest that what the Greeks basically did was--
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well, if you want to take the most extreme statement of it,
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stole their civilization from the other folks.
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Well, if you take a look at the Greek civilization
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let us say in the classical period,
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those other cultures wouldn't
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have had a clue what the Greeks were doing, so different