just speaking for my families own country, bud....and to all the others: Greece has been ruled unjustly for 400 years by the Turks. Greece is poor because of this. has anyone helped us gain our independence? no. we had no help. therefore we are not a major power. Greece was a major power in the classical/middle-age periods and were well ahead of that time.
"If Turkish occupation hadn't stopped the Greek civilization from its advanced progress in mathematics , chemistry, and physics the Greeks could have been to space 600 years before the Americans"
(Arthur C. Clarke)
the renaissance was a direct result from the fall of the Byzantine Empire; the strongest empire Europe had ever seen during the middle-ages. when the Turks sacked Constantinople in 1453, Europe as you know it, was born...Greece was dead and conquered until our inep. in 1830s....so lets see America ruled for 400 years and try to get back to where it was at. WITH NO HELP.