Ancient Greece, 1 (for parts 2 and up, go to MrCropper)

[kelouis75]

Also what if their "play" compromised the rights of other people... how great is that?

[kelouis75]

If the Greeks were so great... How did they regard women? How did they regard people who did not look like them or share their blood? It was a flawed society just like all others...

[oohhyum]

mr cropper didnt the greeks borrow everything  from mythology and scince and astronomy from the mesopotamians

[agon1984]

best people in the world albanians with history music folklore everything

[grreek22]

@agon1984 .. wow dude...  no one even KNOWS YOU EXIST.. aLBANIA? where is that.... it will be a province of Greece soon, but be sure, no one other than the Greeks and a couple of other balkan countries even knows you exist!!.

[grreek22]

Good work mr cropper... this is perhaps one of your most viewed videos...

[agon1984]

old greece and greeks of now are complete different. just like egypt arabs have nothing to do, with the faraos of then

[grreek22]

@agon1984 ... First, Mr. Cropper does not mention modern Greeks. Perhaps modern Greeks are far better.. that is not the subject here. Second, you are a Turk.. many years behind in European History in cultural advances.. You live LIKE THE EGYPT ARABS IN TURKEY.. that is why you will never make it to become part of Europe... so talk for yourself because you are a turk.. most turks don't know where you come from. We GREEKS DO KNOW..

[agon1984]

@grreek22 ,you live near turks you look like turks and you suck turk cock. we albanian participated as normal with turkisch ocupation that lasted 500 years, we almost took the whole turk empire. second turks tried to make us turks.they suceeeded with some albanians. but greeks did exactrly the same as turks did, make albanian greeks because they are verry important for the greek history, because we hol everything in our hands music.. sulli warriors. arvanites. heroes marko etc.

[agon1984]

@grreek22 we live like egypt arabs, ahahah. well you are animals pakistani demonstrations,. fucking up european economy falsyving your goverment notes to stay in the eu .. no you are fucked up egyptian country, your faith is mixed with your goverment. you dont seperate state and church. you are fucked up not us. you greek bastardo

[mymojorisin]

Wow you babble a lot but do not say much of anything.

[grreek22]

@mymojorisin .. You don't understand MR Cropper because you are a white supremasist... nothing like normal good white Americans... in other words you are white trash! First, get rid of your prejudices and then you may know how listen to and analyze others' positions STATING HISTORICAL FACTS!.

[mymojorisin]

@grreek22

You are a fucking moron. If you would have taken a second to visit my page you would see my feature video by Tim Wise on White Privilege and how destructive it is. Now why would a White Supremacist have Tim Wise on their page? The answer is they would not. Which goes to show your incredible ignorance.

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You are a intolerant hate mongering fool. Your profile is completely empty (just like your head) which indicates to me you are ashamed of who you are and where you come from.

[mymojorisin]

@grreek22

I criticized your beloved Mr Cropper because his presentation was incomplete and full of useless information. He fumbled between books and was not prepared in his speech. Perhaps for someone like yourself with no knowledge of anything it was a great video, but for me it was a waste of time.

[grreek22]

Very good analysis... This video ( uploaded under other titles as well) is one of your most viewed videos Mr. Cropper... GOOD WORK!!!

[belisarius2930]

The only consistency in Greek peoples since the Bronze age has been shared mythology. They had different dialects and cultural norms. The age of Agamemnon Achaeans were not genetically the same as Dorian Greeks, who dominated later. Though the language, and to some extent culture; has retained its primary form, the bloodline is a probable amalgam. From Vlachs, to Bulgars, Slavs, Avars, and Goths, Greece has had its share of flavoring.

[aktonexile]

another unemployed uneducated, with a lot of free time, trying to make a cent out of youtube, don't hate the guy feed him.

[grreek22]

Ancient Greek Glory is here to stay. Greek Alexander the Great and Greek Macedonia is part of Ancient Greece. SlavoBulgarians moved from Rusia to that region in 700 A.D. We the Greeks taught these SlavoBulgarian barbarian tribes how to read and write.

[gospodinLav]

Macedonia , macedonians never other

fuck off greeks, fuck off elada ,.. fuck off hellass ,.. you are be oure slaves for 150 years,... never macedonians ,..never

[grreek22]

FANTASTIC!!!  Historically true. Great Mr. Cropper. Great work on Greek Civilization.

[gospodinLav]

ignorant

[grreek22]

Pseudo fyrom macedonian, slavo bulgarian, just remember what Basil II did to you guys, and fear. In 1014n A.D. , Byzantine emperor Basil II decided to end for once and for all a war with slavobulgarians ... 150 SlavoBulgarians were blinded in one eye only. Every 100 blind men were guided by a one-eyed leader back to the SlavoBulgarian capital of Ohrid... Remember that if you piss us off enough, we may do it again.

[grreek22]

Every 100 blind men were guided by a one-eyed leader back to the Bulgarian capital of Ohrid, whose ruler, Samuel, had received word that his army was returning to him. Samuel hastened to meet his men - and found himself staring at thousands of helpless blind men. The sight was fatal. Samuel suffered a stroke on the spot, and died two days later. (Basil II received the title Bulgaroktonis, meaning "slayer of Bulgarians.")

[grreek22]

In 1014, Byzantine emperor Basil II decided to end for once and for all a war that had already lasted forty years. To break the spirit of the hated Bulgarians, he blinded all but 150 of 15,000 prisoners. The "lucky" 150 were blinded in one eye only.

[gospodinLav]

@grreek22 origin of Vasilie 2 its, ERMENIAN ,..

[grreek22]

Pseudo fyrom macedonian, slavo bulgarian, just remember what Basil II did to you guys, and fear.

[grreek22]

Ancient Greek Glory is here to stay. Greek Alexander the Great and Greek Macedonia is part of Ancient Greece. SlavoBulgarians moved from Rusia to that region in 700 A.D. We the Greeks taught these SlavoBulgarian barbarian tribes how to read and write.

[grreek22]

@gospodinLav Basil II was the son of Emperor Romanos II by Theophano, whose family was of Laconian Greek originoriginating in the Peloponnesian region of Lakonia[8], possibly from the city of Sparta[9].

[gospodinLav]

ha ha ha

[grreek22]

Do you mean "Armenian"? Or SlavoBulgarian like you?

Yours truly Basil II the SlavoBulgaroctonos

[grreek22]

@gospodinLav Slavobulgarian barbarians.... We will be nice with you.. We will no longer poke your eyes off. Just leave our history alone.. Be glad that you were slaves and barbarians with no language and we, the Greeks, taught you how to read and write.

[Pella2013]

@IstorTheMonkey

Embrace your real roots - Ethiopia!!

Spreading your ass is the only part of ancient greek civilization that you know. You are a fake greek - you have NO relation to the ancient greeks. Around Athens only Albanian was spoken and now because some white guy taught you how to speak a bastardized form of ancient greek you think you are related to them. You are an opportunist - scum of the earth. One day you will be dead & gone - No one will care that you ever existed.

[MAKEDANOS]

Don't be stupid. Your ill-fated Republic of "Macedonia" will simply not survive the Albanian demographic explosion. Not only will Greece continue to exist long after you're gone, but according to *serious* historians, the Greeks are one of a small group of pre-modern ethnic groups such as the Jews and Armenians.

[IstorTheMacedonian]

WOW !!

Come on Greeks! We have the Civilization to spread !!

[t3dobber]

Fantastic!!!

[grreek22]

I absolutely AGREE. GREEKS, as Mr. Cropper says were almost gods among men. Mr. Cropper has the balls to say it like it is. Everyone else is afraid of what the minorities will say if we come out and simply tell the truth about everything in this country. Not only about Greece, but about everything.

[grreek22]

Fantastic!!!! +++++

[nilbud]

Why does this dink refer to himself in the third person? Why does he pursue his narrow minded simplistic racism?

[ihavestage4coolness]

I understand your point native americans never played at all. right? They weren't slaughtered by the white man, jews commonly known by us. All of them are jews. Jews Jews.. Much like Jude much like Julius much like julian, these are striking facts to me a thinking non political constructed mind. The greeks actually attacked and killed the race of people who also played.. hmmm go get um, guy. go fucking get um.. we are so fucking sad that you forgot any part in you worthy. fuck you. jackass.

[ihavestage4coolness]

You seem hell bent on opposing me. The beginning you say egypt was towards death. That will stand here on it's own strength, no further proofs needed. It's biased and quite telling of your bias.

I'm not telling you the olympus games were about peace nor war. Only a point. The First games were held by the Gods. Your claim of knowing that Ares was a part in games to the point of peace is an absurd notion. At what point did you avoid the spartans practicing war and not see the field games?

[titusho2]

Calling all Socialist!! protect our freedom of choice and that is Socialism!.....We dispise this " TURBO-CORP DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIPS!"...IT OFFERS NOTHING BUT THE LOVE FOR MATERIALISM, CONSUMPTION AND BRAIN WASHING! YOU BRAG OUT, BUT ITS ALL DELUSIONAL ALONG WITH YOUR LEADERS AND ITS CONGRESS FULL OF HOMOS--LESBIANS AND COLONIAL MINDED CRIMINALS...MORAL LEADERS OF THE WORLD? As H. Clinton once said in her speech. .LOL ...WHAT WORLD? LOL ! GO TELL THAT TO UR MICKY MOUSE IN YOUR DISNEYLAND!

[titusho2]

I'm not afraid of your persistant delusional Ideology cause I know for sure that you and your Euro- descendents were accompanied by Satans demonic forces and yous persist, insist on causing violence against ethnic countries..If u's really got balls try and invade China or N.Korea.. u fucking pussies..GO AHEAD TOUCH VENEZUELA AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO PUT AN SOULDER TO AIR MISSIL TO DESTROY UR HELICOPTERS OF DEATH! MR. URIBE INVITED 7 U.S. BASES IN COL .THEN WE'LL INVITE 7 CHINESE! L'G LIV HUGO & CHE

[nilbud]

Shut up with your religious racist mud race babble you fucking coked up monkey spawn. Christ on a bike your fear is so obvious you are a disgrace to the "side" you seem to be rooting for. Get a fucking education you "ethnic".

[titusho2]

Games, games, games..play, play, play and that is how most "White Europeans peoples think," that includes "American european descendents who live in AZTLAN! I see them all the times going to Yankee Sta., A quietly violent-Homo delusional mentality is you peoples have always carried. Your games, your statues, your pornos, corporate cartels is your GODS! And your Propaganda threat of invasion against Latin America will not go unanswered! YES LONG LIVE CHE GUEVARA AND HUGO CHAVEZ..GET OUT OF S.A.

[glowingdarkmatter25]

Ah! I'm suprised I like your videos. Greece people weren't they ancient astronomers? You should do a segment on them. (I'm an novice/intermediate astronomer. I'm a bit biased. :0)

[AhYaOk]

. Look at each civilizations physical environment. That will explain their culture, mythology, philosophy and type of behavior and how they evolved. Its obvious. Sure the Greeks were great, but they also gained knowledge from other places. This is a very Western perspective. Put another way, Asians score high on tests because of their culture pushes discipline; not because they are smarter than other races.

[LimpLoser]

cool

[thinkingisawesome]

Keep your head above the trolls, man.

[xxfZ]

I have the same maps on my walls.

Is it the US map which has Cuba unlabeled, and featuring instead big and bold "The United States of America" on top?

[nikosomegas]

Hmm, im Greek kamaki :P

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[gibbersome]

Cool nuts dude!

[ArcaneKarma]

A good video, but the music is distracting.

Thanks for the upload.

[MrCropper]

"A good video, but the music is distracting."

I commend you, sir. You are an exception. Most people love the addition of music. It is, after all, classical I have added. Hard to deride that.

[ArcaneKarma]

well, I'm easily distracted. :p

[BanjoNaps]

How do you feel about the Minoans?

[MrCropper]

"How do you feel about the Minoans?"

Very interesting. I think they were very important predecessors to the Greeks. In fact, later in this series I talk about the birth of philosophy in the Ionian islands. If you know where Ionia is, you'll see the connection to Knossuss.

[BanjoNaps]

I was entirely hoping your response would be like it was. I took a class on the history of art in recent years.

Though it didn't go into Greek art all to much, they stood out.

Shortly after I broke my long term trend of not being interested in humanity, because as a result it happened to me that humanity (my own) was in fact my only window into the universe of which I so adored. So I took an adventure into philosophy. Recently I came across rand. So... I stumbled across you. Good job.

[BanjoNaps]

At any rate I look forward to hearing your take on the Minoans. I heard they had music in every part of their lives. Fantastic.

Anyways. That azeral fellow (or what ever his name is), is completely insane. The primary reason I turned to trees for reason instead of people in my early years. Trees have a lot to offer.

For instance.

Take a great oak.

When it dies, its being returns to the world.

Greater then it was.

A life lived.

A positive in the world

So it must live in order to die.

As do we.

[BanjoNaps]

Oh, weren't the Ionian islands off the western coast of Greece? Seven or so?

[MrCropper]

"Oh, weren't the Ionian islands off the western coast of Greece? Seven or so?"

Ionia is the islands north-east of the Island of Crete, Off the western coast of Asia minor, modern Turkey.

[BanjoNaps]

I see, thank you for the correction.

[vrontogatos]

Wrong, Ionian islands are off the western coast of Greece.

"Ionia" (not ionian) was a place in ancient Greece, which contained the todays greek Dodekannese islands, and a part of today's western Turkey.

Two different areas. One on west, and another on east.

[eventide925]

Thank you for bringing this chatauqua to You Tube! I found it to be a refreshing change of pace from the "Jackass" style of video.

[whyhellobookworm]

i like your videos...is that the cover to the book the girl with the pearl earring in the backround

[MrCropper]

"is that the cover to the book the girl with the pearl earring in the backround?"

It is actually a book about Vermeer's paintings.