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2016-06-29 14:54:25 Post No. 79173689
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Every night, shortly before going to sleep, I look at this. It's a map of the Hittite Empire at its greatest extension. I look at it and my mind wanders off to perhaps 3000 or 4000 years ago. What a great time to be alive it must have been.
The young western civilisation was at its first steps. The naïve Greeks lived westmost of this area. I imagine them interacting with the Hittites, the native Anatolians, before even the Phrygians or the Celts went there. It must have been fun.
It must have been an interesting culture to interact with and trade cultural elements with. They even had similar Gods as the Greeks did, and many shared myths. I wonder what the two sides of the Trojan war were thinking. Such kindred cultures, clashing with each other as was common during those days.
I wonder what the world would have been today if the Trojans had won. I wonder if it would be a better world. Maybe we'd speak Luwian, but I don't think civilisation in the area of Greece would have turned out much less excellent.
I guess we'll never know for sure. What I can say for sure is that if civilisation had stronger pillars set in Anatolia, like more big cities, more strongholds, more military protections, then maybe, just maybe, humanity's enemy #1 wouldn't have arrived in Europe.
The Ottoman Turks would have never been. They'd be beyond Caspian Sea, where they belong. Moreover, perhaps the Levant area, and even the westmost Middle East wouldn't have been Islamified. Egypt would be great. Phoenicia would still exist. Syrians would still enjoy the glory of the ancestors.
Such nice thoughts these are. I think of them before going to sleep, while looking at this map. I shed a tear of nostalgia and maybe a hint of regret, and then I close my eyes, praying Morpheus will bring me sweet dreams of a civilised Anatolia.
