Re: Genesis of the Humans

On 29/06/2025 22:37, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-06-29 11:13:15 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 29/06/2025 8:19 am, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-06-28 13:38:24 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 28/06/2025 12:28 pm, The Doctor wrote:

In article <103n1eb$c3gv$1@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:

On 27/06/2025 21:56, solar penguin wrote:

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And it definitely doesn’t make it biological fact.

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And neither is a Time Lord changing gender during regeneration.

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Of course Moses was before Greece.

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Bullshit, Binky, Greece was around waaayyyy before Moses was even a twinkle in his Father's eye!! (Either One!)

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Strictly speaking it depends what you mean by "Greece".
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Modern Greece was established in 1830, when it broke away from the Ottomans.
Ancient Greece began about 4000 years ago (ie. 2000BC)
Neolithic Greece began about 7000 years ago (i.e.5000BC)

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Out of those options, I guess the one that falls closest to my meaning would be 'Neolithic', but Greece (the dirt/soil/land) MUST have existed WAAAAYYY before THAT!!

 The area of course existed, but it wasn't called Greece. The word

It was called Hellas.

"Greece" is thought to have originated in the term "Graes" from about Aristole's era and "Graecia" used by the Romans for the area and people there, but even then it wasn't a country as such, but a group of independent 'city states'. The word "Greeks" originated from the term "Gaikoi" somewhere around the 300AD.
 

Gaikoi was a Roman term. The Greeks called themselves Hellenes and the term existed since at least the time Homer wrote the Iliad (c.930 BC).
Thucydides refers to a common Hellenic body existing since around 700 BCish, probably at least since 776 BC when the Olympic Games were founded where only Hellenes were allowed to take part.

The earliest people to live in the area are thought to be the Pelasgians, but little is known about them and they may even have been mythological stories created by other people in surrounding areas. So technically it would perhaps have been called something like "Pelasgia".
 

Pelasgia was the original name for Greece as is confirmed by Herodotus. Hellenic was a dialect of Pelasgian (or a common root) that gained more popularity.
Athens doesn't join the Hellenic body until it takes on Aeolian kings in 1127 BC. At the time of the Trojan war the Greeks called themselves Achaeans.
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