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Hello Greeks!
Ghetto Gospel
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 18:24 NIV
Hello eGreeks! It is me, Richboy803, with an article about my thanks to you, eGreece, for letting us stay in your country, about the great heritage the Greeks have, and the friendship we both share.
First, I will start with a little eGreecian history lesson. The eRep version.
For the longest time eGreece was a relatively small country. They did not have too many citizens and thus had a relatively weak military. The Turks saw this and began to prey on eGreece. They overtook a few Greek regions but were unable to attain the ever-important high-iron region in Central Greece thanks to Romania and Pakistan. Peace came to the two countries when a former eGreek, Phaedrox Lidox, was elected to the presidency and demanded that peace be instilled.
Next, Romania declared war on eHungary, who was eGreece's new ally. This forced the eGreeks into a difficult decision. Either betray their new ally eHungary, or betray the country that had helped them keep their most important region, and their independance. They chose the former. Again, the Turks were ready to pounce. They realized that the eGreeks would be no match for them now that they were no longer protected by eRomania. So then the Tukrs attacked and this time conquered all of eGreece for around a month until Thrace was liberated with major help from eGreeces allies. They also conquered most of eIsreal.
That is when the eUnited States and their allies stepped in. We realized the fact that a potential ally was in trouble, and that we wanted to help. We started six RWs to get the wheels in motion for a revolt against the Turks. What happened next would be go down as the most tiumphant day in eUS history and one of the most triumphant for the eGreeks (besides the day when they liberated their last region later on). We won five of the RWs and liberated the ever-important region of Central Greece with its high iron resources. Thus the wheels were turning for the most amazing turn-around in eRep history. Since that day, not only has eGreece retained all of it's regions from eTurkey, but they have eTurkey at their mercy. The Turks have tried to recapture some of eGreece's regions but to no avail. The Turks asked for help from their friends in PEACE only to be told to stop whining and to fight their own battles. And to add to this, eGreece could conquer eTurkey anytime they wish, but they do not wish to be imperialistic like their former conquerors. No, they wish to be a peaceful nation, only fighting in wars they feel they have to.
That is about all of the eGreek history in eRepublik. Now let's go to the RL history books and see what we can find out about our friends, the Greeks.
My source for this info is from www.infoplease.com.
"At various times in its history Greece included all of Epirus, Macedonia, and Thrace, part of Asia Minor, and Magna Graecia. Archaeological remains show that Greece had a long prehistory, dating from the Neolithic Age (c.4000 B.C.). By the Bronze Age (c.2800 B.C.) important cultures had developed. The Aegean civilization had several phases, two of the most important being the Minoan civilization and the Mycenaean civilization. These cultures had disappeared by 1100 B.C. The Greek-speaking Achaeans migrated into the Peloponnesus during the 14th and 13th cent. B.C. The Aeolians and the Ionians apparently preceded the Dorians, who migrated into Greece before 1000 B.C. The Ionians, moving forth, possibly as refugees, possibly as conquerors, settled in the Ionian Islands and on the shores of Asia Minor, which became a part of the Greek world.
After the Dorian invasion, the peoples of Greece, under the influence of the divisive geography and the great variety of tribes, developed the city-state—small settlements that grew into minor kingdoms. Homeric Greece (named for the great epic poet Homer) was dependent on the agriculture of relatively unproductive fields but was already open to the sea. Although the Greeks never rivaled the Phoenicians or the later Carthaginians and Romans as mariners, the sea offered them an opportunity for expansion and commerce. In the 8th, 7th, and 6th cent. B.C., the Greeks established colonies, many of which became separate city-states, from the Black Sea and the Bosporus (where Byzantium was founded) to Sicily, S Italy (Magna Graecia), Mediterranean France, the northern shores of Africa, and Spain. These colonies had a great influence on the history of the Greek mainland, where the city-states were developing in quarrelsome freedom.
Because of their independence, the cities developed separately. However, there was a general pattern of development, which varied somewhat in each particular instance. Monarchies yielded to aristocracies, which were in turn replaced by tyrants, who usually gained power by espousing the cause of the underprivileged and by using force. Although the tyrants usually tried to establish dynasties, the hold established by their families was short-lived. Pisistratus, Hipparchus, and Hippias in Athens and the later Gelon, Dionysius the Elder, and Dionysius the Younger in Sicily were typical tyrants.
On the Greek mainland the tyrannies soon yielded to oligarchies or to democracies tempered by limited citizenship and by slaveholding; it was in Greece that the idea of political democracy came into being. Solon established a democracy in Athens. Militaristic Sparta had a unique constitutional and social development. The warring city-states had a sense of unity; all their citizens considered themselves Hellenes, and religious unity gave rise to leagues known as amphictyonies, notably the great amphictyony centered at Delphi.
The celebration of contests such as the Olympian Games also fostered unity. However, the Ionian cities in Asia Minor received little help from Greece when they revolted (499 B.C.) against Persia, which also threatened the Greek mainland, and the mainland cities were poorly united in the Persian Wars that continued until 449 B.C. Out of these successful wars, however, came the powerful surge of Greek civilization.
Athens, in particular, with the support of the Delian League as the basis of an empire, grew dramatically, and in the age of Pericles (c.495–429 B.C.) developed a culture that left its mark on the course of Western and Eastern civilization. Drama, poetry, sculpture, architecture, and philosophy flourished, and there was a vigorous intellectual life. The leading Greeks of the 5th and 4th cent. B.C. included Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Phidias, Myron, Polykleitos, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates. Although Athens succumbed in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.) and Sparta triumphed briefly before continued fighting gave the hegemony of Greece to Corinth and Thebes, the civilization that had been created lived on.
When Philip II of Macedon attacked the warring city-states and conquered Greece by defeating the Athenians and the Thebans in the battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.), he paved the way for his son, Alexander the Great, who spread Greek civilization over the known Western world and across Asia to India. After Alexander's death, his empire was torn apart by his warring generals (see Diadochi; Ptolemy I; Seleucus I; Antigonus I; Demetrius I) in the period from 323 to 276 B.C. Some Greek cities formed the Aetolian League to oppose Macedonian rule, but members of the Achaean League took the Macedonian side. The Greek city-states continued their rivalries, and Macedonia under the Antigonids became thoroughly Hellenized.
Incessant warfare made Greece increasingly weak, while Rome grew stronger. In 146 B.C., after the Fourth Macedonian War (see Macedon), the remnants of the Greek states fell definitively into the hands of Rome. Under Roman rule, the cities long retained a measure of independence and intellectual life, but had little political or economic importance. Hellenism, however, had triumphed, and Greek intellectual supremacy continued for many centuries. The Byzantine Empire was thoroughly Greek in origin, and Hellenistic civilization, centered at Alexandria, Pergamum, Dura, and other cities, spread Greek influence and preserved the Greek heritage for later ages. The Greeks were the first to write narrative secular history, and the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Polybius are basic sources of events and contemporary ideas as well as classics of world literature."
As you can see, eGreece has an extremely rich history in both eRep, and in RL. They are very peace loving in eRep and fairly so in RL. Although they may not be the strongest nation yet, I believe any countires who are not their allies should keep an eye on them. Again, I wish to thank eGreece for taking in eMericans in their time of need. We are extremely greatful. I also wish to be of any assistance to any eGreek citizens. If you have any questions about eMerica or anything in general, feel free to contact me. : )
And now for the Ghetto Girls!
Naturally, I believe this article deserves something of the Greek genre. Here you go!
http://morningpaper.typepad.com/entertainment/images/2008/04/16/13.jpg
Please vote this up to the top so other eGreeks can see how I, and all eMericans, feel about our Greek counterparts. As well as so some of the newer military members and eMericans can see the rich history of eGreece and eMerica and eGreece's strong feelings toward eachother.
UPDATE: This really doesn't have anything to do with this article but it is important. Indonesia and eUS have signed a peace treaty! Maybe eMerica won't completely disappear after all. ; )
PS. Thanks to Greekwarrior for helping me correct a mistake in my history of eGreece. Thanks man.
First Sergeant Richboy803
Alpha 6 Executive Officer
United States Department of Defense
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 18:24 NIV
Hello eGreeks! It is me, Richboy803, with an article about my thanks to you, eGreece, for letting us stay in your country, about the great heritage the Greeks have, and the friendship we both share.
First, I will start with a little eGreecian history lesson. The eRep version.
For the longest time eGreece was a relatively small country. They did not have too many citizens and thus had a relatively weak military. The Turks saw this and began to prey on eGreece. They overtook a few Greek regions but were unable to attain the ever-important high-iron region in Central Greece thanks to Romania and Pakistan. Peace came to the two countries when a former eGreek, Phaedrox Lidox, was elected to the presidency and demanded that peace be instilled.
Next, Romania declared war on eHungary, who was eGreece's new ally. This forced the eGreeks into a difficult decision. Either betray their new ally eHungary, or betray the country that had helped them keep their most important region, and their independance. They chose the former. Again, the Turks were ready to pounce. They realized that the eGreeks would be no match for them now that they were no longer protected by eRomania. So then the Tukrs attacked and this time conquered all of eGreece for around a month until Thrace was liberated with major help from eGreeces allies. They also conquered most of eIsreal.
That is when the eUnited States and their allies stepped in. We realized the fact that a potential ally was in trouble, and that we wanted to help. We started six RWs to get the wheels in motion for a revolt against the Turks. What happened next would be go down as the most tiumphant day in eUS history and one of the most triumphant for the eGreeks (besides the day when they liberated their last region later on). We won five of the RWs and liberated the ever-important region of Central Greece with its high iron resources. Thus the wheels were turning for the most amazing turn-around in eRep history. Since that day, not only has eGreece retained all of it's regions from eTurkey, but they have eTurkey at their mercy. The Turks have tried to recapture some of eGreece's regions but to no avail. The Turks asked for help from their friends in PEACE only to be told to stop whining and to fight their own battles. And to add to this, eGreece could conquer eTurkey anytime they wish, but they do not wish to be imperialistic like their former conquerors. No, they wish to be a peaceful nation, only fighting in wars they feel they have to.
That is about all of the eGreek history in eRepublik. Now let's go to the RL history books and see what we can find out about our friends, the Greeks.
My source for this info is from www.infoplease.com.
"At various times in its history Greece included all of Epirus, Macedonia, and Thrace, part of Asia Minor, and Magna Graecia. Archaeological remains show that Greece had a long prehistory, dating from the Neolithic Age (c.4000 B.C.). By the Bronze Age (c.2800 B.C.) important cultures had developed. The Aegean civilization had several phases, two of the most important being the Minoan civilization and the Mycenaean civilization. These cultures had disappeared by 1100 B.C. The Greek-speaking Achaeans migrated into the Peloponnesus during the 14th and 13th cent. B.C. The Aeolians and the Ionians apparently preceded the Dorians, who migrated into Greece before 1000 B.C. The Ionians, moving forth, possibly as refugees, possibly as conquerors, settled in the Ionian Islands and on the shores of Asia Minor, which became a part of the Greek world.
After the Dorian invasion, the peoples of Greece, under the influence of the divisive geography and the great variety of tribes, developed the city-state—small settlements that grew into minor kingdoms. Homeric Greece (named for the great epic poet Homer) was dependent on the agriculture of relatively unproductive fields but was already open to the sea. Although the Greeks never rivaled the Phoenicians or the later Carthaginians and Romans as mariners, the sea offered them an opportunity for expansion and commerce. In the 8th, 7th, and 6th cent. B.C., the Greeks established colonies, many of which became separate city-states, from the Black Sea and the Bosporus (where Byzantium was founded) to Sicily, S Italy (Magna Graecia), Mediterranean France, the northern shores of Africa, and Spain. These colonies had a great influence on the history of the Greek mainland, where the city-states were developing in quarrelsome freedom.
Because of their independence, the cities developed separately. However, there was a general pattern of development, which varied somewhat in each particular instance. Monarchies yielded to aristocracies, which were in turn replaced by tyrants, who usually gained power by espousing the cause of the underprivileged and by using force. Although the tyrants usually tried to establish dynasties, the hold established by their families was short-lived. Pisistratus, Hipparchus, and Hippias in Athens and the later Gelon, Dionysius the Elder, and Dionysius the Younger in Sicily were typical tyrants.
On the Greek mainland the tyrannies soon yielded to oligarchies or to democracies tempered by limited citizenship and by slaveholding; it was in Greece that the idea of political democracy came into being. Solon established a democracy in Athens. Militaristic Sparta had a unique constitutional and social development. The warring city-states had a sense of unity; all their citizens considered themselves Hellenes, and religious unity gave rise to leagues known as amphictyonies, notably the great amphictyony centered at Delphi.
The celebration of contests such as the Olympian Games also fostered unity. However, the Ionian cities in Asia Minor received little help from Greece when they revolted (499 B.C.) against Persia, which also threatened the Greek mainland, and the mainland cities were poorly united in the Persian Wars that continued until 449 B.C. Out of these successful wars, however, came the powerful surge of Greek civilization.
Athens, in particular, with the support of the Delian League as the basis of an empire, grew dramatically, and in the age of Pericles (c.495–429 B.C.) developed a culture that left its mark on the course of Western and Eastern civilization. Drama, poetry, sculpture, architecture, and philosophy flourished, and there was a vigorous intellectual life. The leading Greeks of the 5th and 4th cent. B.C. included Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Phidias, Myron, Polykleitos, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates. Although Athens succumbed in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.) and Sparta triumphed briefly before continued fighting gave the hegemony of Greece to Corinth and Thebes, the civilization that had been created lived on.
When Philip II of Macedon attacked the warring city-states and conquered Greece by defeating the Athenians and the Thebans in the battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.), he paved the way for his son, Alexander the Great, who spread Greek civilization over the known Western world and across Asia to India. After Alexander's death, his empire was torn apart by his warring generals (see Diadochi; Ptolemy I; Seleucus I; Antigonus I; Demetrius I) in the period from 323 to 276 B.C. Some Greek cities formed the Aetolian League to oppose Macedonian rule, but members of the Achaean League took the Macedonian side. The Greek city-states continued their rivalries, and Macedonia under the Antigonids became thoroughly Hellenized.
Incessant warfare made Greece increasingly weak, while Rome grew stronger. In 146 B.C., after the Fourth Macedonian War (see Macedon), the remnants of the Greek states fell definitively into the hands of Rome. Under Roman rule, the cities long retained a measure of independence and intellectual life, but had little political or economic importance. Hellenism, however, had triumphed, and Greek intellectual supremacy continued for many centuries. The Byzantine Empire was thoroughly Greek in origin, and Hellenistic civilization, centered at Alexandria, Pergamum, Dura, and other cities, spread Greek influence and preserved the Greek heritage for later ages. The Greeks were the first to write narrative secular history, and the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Polybius are basic sources of events and contemporary ideas as well as classics of world literature."
As you can see, eGreece has an extremely rich history in both eRep, and in RL. They are very peace loving in eRep and fairly so in RL. Although they may not be the strongest nation yet, I believe any countires who are not their allies should keep an eye on them. Again, I wish to thank eGreece for taking in eMericans in their time of need. We are extremely greatful. I also wish to be of any assistance to any eGreek citizens. If you have any questions about eMerica or anything in general, feel free to contact me. : )
And now for the Ghetto Girls!
Naturally, I believe this article deserves something of the Greek genre. Here you go!
http://morningpaper.typepad.com/entertainment/images/2008/04/16/13.jpg
Please vote this up to the top so other eGreeks can see how I, and all eMericans, feel about our Greek counterparts. As well as so some of the newer military members and eMericans can see the rich history of eGreece and eMerica and eGreece's strong feelings toward eachother.
UPDATE: This really doesn't have anything to do with this article but it is important. Indonesia and eUS have signed a peace treaty! Maybe eMerica won't completely disappear after all. ; )
PS. Thanks to Greekwarrior for helping me correct a mistake in my history of eGreece. Thanks man.
First Sergeant Richboy803
Alpha 6 Executive Officer
United States Department of Defense
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well there is a small mistake in your history..we were fully captured by the turks for a month(may be longer not sure) and then we managed to liberate thrace with a lot of help from the outside
Your history is a little off, cant vote something that isnt entirely true.
K. Let me fix that.
also thank franco, uncle sam and ben dovver for taking money not to renew mpps with the usa before the turks attacked 9 months ago.
Thank you mate. You are most welcome!
Haralambos
Only been around 3 1/2 months. What happened with Franco, Benn, and Uncle sam?
read the papers
by the way i have nothing against the usa!
Voted.Very nice
WooooooooW, HR is that you or you just clopycating?
Voted/Nice Job!
@freddakos
what do you mean copycating?
Your History is awful. Perhaps you should find someone who was around back then, and then write a better one.
Greece was originally sparsely populated, and run by a guy named Capelli King. This was before the Turkish invasion. He was American, like most "Greeks" back then, or Australians in exile.
When Something Awful began recruiting, they went to Greece, and saw a pretty good side babyboom. Capelli got mad because he knew they were going to relieve him of power soon, so he printed tons of currency, and drove salaries sky high.
In doing this, it presented a problem to the Greeks (SA). Either stay in a crap economy or allow Turkey to take them over. They then started recruiting SA members into Turkey (which is where Lidox actually came from). The Turks declared war on Greece after the Goons spent about a month insulting Ataturk on the forums (which apparently made a bunch of people really mad) in an effort to get Turkey AND Greece rather than just Greece.
They won elections the next month in both Turkey and Greece, and began to release various regions from Turkish rule.
Then Lidox gets banned, Goons get bored, and more Americans like yourself populate Greece.
And here we are.
Are you saying it is a bad thing we (eMericans) are here in eGreece?
And sorry for my history being a tad off. I went by the Wiki and what I knew from my experience and I inferred a few things.
Voted.Very nice job!!
richboy congrats and voted for your good intentions- don't get disappointed by a few negative remarks.People who love eGreece and more importantly RL Greece are always welcome and brothers for us in real life as well.
My sincere brotherly regards
Thanks. That means a lot. : )
fantastic info what dedication you should write a novel!!
lol. thanks.