>>18412491>Where exactly did that change my statement in question?For the Greeks, Europe was simply their known world (oikoumene), which began in Greece and had its western border marked by the Pillars of Hercules (another Phoenician motif) on the Iberian Peninsula, and to the north border the land of the Hyperboreans, who were... Romanians. Basically the Mediterranean with some lands in the Balkans and the Western Europe. Since half of what they considered to be half of the heart of Hellas, Asia Minor/Turkey, was not located in Europe.>The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the North Wind (one of the Anemoi, or "Winds") lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea indicates that it is a region beyond ThraceEuropeans call themselves that because of the Greeks, not the other way around. I won't even go into the fact that Greek geography was idiosyncratic, not scientific. That the Earth is not flat, we are not surrounded by Oceanus, there is no island larger than Libya and Asia beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the border between Libya and Asia is not on the Nile River, the Levant and India are not located in Ethiopia, etc... >these samples show a cluster within southern EuropeA cluster that is closer to the Cypriots, Jews, and other Outlines of the Caucasus/Levant than Northern Europe.>etymology of Europe The Problem of Universals doesn't change what the words refer were, you retarded nominalist. Europa was Phoenician princess, not European. Deal with that.
BTW Pythagoras was the son of a Phoenician man, Mnesarchus, and a Greek woman, Pythais. "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here" ("Ageometretos medeis eisito") was written in the Academy of Athens founded by Plato, whose last teachers were Syrians who saved Ancient Greek knowledge by fleeing to Persia in the same way that the Byzantines did in Italy with the Turks during the Renaissance.>The last Greek philosophers of the revived Academy in the 6th century were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine): Five of the seven Academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias were Syriac in their cultural origin: Hermias and Diogenes (both from Phoenicia), Isidorus of Gaza, Damascius of Syria, Iamblichus of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia. The emperor Justinian closed the school in 529 A.D.. The last Scholarch of the Academy was Damascius (d. 540). According to the sole witness, the historian Agathias, its remaining members looked for protection under the rule of Sassanid king Khosrau I in his capital at Ctesiphon, carrying with them precious scrolls of literature and philosophy, and to a lesser degree of science. After a peace treaty between the Persian and the Byzantine empire in 532, their personal security (an early document in the history of freedom of religion) was guaranteed>It has been speculated that the Academy did not altogether disappear. After his exile, Simplicius (and perhaps some others), may have travelled to Harran, near Edessa. From there, the students of an Academy-in-exile could have survived into the 9th century, long enough to facilitate the Arabic revival of the Neoplatonist commentary tradition in Baghdad>One of the earliest academies established in the east was the 7th century Academy of Gundishapur in Sassanid Persia
>inb4 Murray mapThe region with the highest percentage of notable people per population is the Netherlands, which he attributes to the Jews who caused a brain drain from Spain, lol.https://www.commentary.org/articles/charles-murray/jewish-genius/>After being expelled from Spain at the end of the 15th century, Sephardi Jews rose to distinction in many of the countries where they settled. Some economic historians have traced the decline of Spain after 1500, and the subsequent rise of the Netherlands, in part to the Sephardi commercial talent that was transferred from the one to the other. Centuries later, in England, one could point to such Sephardi eminences as Benjamin Disraeli and the economist David Ricardo>Samuel Pallache (Arabic: صامويل آل بالاتش, Samuil al-Baylash, Hebrew: שמואל פלאצ'ה, Shmuel Palache, c. 1550 – 4 February 1616) was a Jewish Moroccan merchant, diplomat, and pirate of the Pallache family, who, as envoy, concluded a treaty with the Dutch Republic in 1608. His antecedents fled to Morocco during the Reconquista. Appointed as an agent under the Saadi Sultan Zidan Abu Maali, Pallache traveled to the newly-independent Dutch Republic to discuss diplomatic terms with the Dutch against their mutual enemy, the Spanish. He died in the Netherlands, brought there due to the intervention of his ally, Maurice of Nassau, son of William the Silent, the father of Dutch Fatherland, who helped him when he was arrested by the Spanish
>>18412672I forgot to mention this guy:>Joseph Nasi (1524 – 1579), known in Portuguese as João Miques, was a Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes and House of Benveniste, nephew of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi, and an influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II. He was a great benefactor of the Jewish people>A court Jew, he was appointed lord of Tiberias, with the expressed aim of resettling Jews in Palestine (then Ottoman Syria) and encouraging industry there; the attempt failed, and, later, he was appointed Duke of Naxos. Nasi also supported a war with the Republic of Venice, at the end of which Venice lost the island of Cyprus to the Ottomans. After the death of Selim, he lost influence in the Ottoman Court, but was allowed to keep his titles and pension for the remainder of his life>Maintaining contacts with William the Silent, Nasi encouraged the Netherlands to revolt against Spain, a major adversary of the Ottoman Empire (the rebellion was ultimately carried out by the Union of Utrecht, as the start of the Eighty Years' War). For this and other achievements, he was appointed by Selim to become the Duke of Naxos. Represented locally by one Francesco Coronello, Nasi mainly ruled the Duchy from his palace of Belvedere near Constantinople, where he also maintained his own Hebrew printing press, founded by his aunt, Gracia Mendes Nasi, which was kept by his wife, Doña Reyna, after Joseph's death
>>18412672>>18412681He is wrong. As much as the Jews helped in the Dutch Revolt, the driving force behind the Dutch Golden Age was the Belgians of Flanders after the Fall of Antwerp.>The Golden Age of Flanders, or Flemish Golden Age, is a term that has been used to describe the flourishing of cultural and economic activities of the Low Countries around the 16th century. The term Flanders in the 16th century referred to the entire Habsburg Netherlands within the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was inclusive of modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Its political capital was Brussels, while the financial-economic centre was Antwerp. Other major artistic and cultural centres of the period included Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen and Leuven. It is also grouped with the Dutch Golden Age, a more common term used primarily in reference to the Dutch Republic, and typically dated from 1588 to 1672, within a "Flemish and Dutch golden age" covering the period from the late 15th to the 17th century>Flanders and Belgium were part of the Spanish Netherlands from 1556, and entered a period of decline in favor of the Dutch Republic which was soon to break off from the Spanish Empire. Symbolic of this is the Sack of Antwerp by Spanish forces in 1576, which forced many merchants to flee to Amsterdam and Holland. The Dutch Golden Age lasted for most of the 17th century>Protestants were especially well-represented among the skilled craftsmen and rich merchants of the port cities of Bruges, Ghent, and Antwerp. Under the terms of the surrender of Antwerp in 1585, the Protestant population (if unwilling to reconvert) were given four years to settle their affairs before leaving the city and Habsburg territory. Similar arrangements were made in other places>Many of those moving north settled in Amsterdam, transforming what was a small harbor into one of the most important ports and commercial centres in the world by 1630
