Americans React to Geography Now Greece!

Americans React to Geography Now Greece!

Geography now Greece o let’s get some gyros gyros baby that sounds delicious I haven’t had a good old Gyro in a while you haven’t had a good gyro in a while why aren’t you Gyro in the gyro why do we do this when we start all of our Europe videos

Like for the Italian one we’re like hey and then theen like and now we’re just saying gyro uh this is a joke I know it’s pronounced guo guo G so what’s better guys if you’re from Greece tell us what’s better a Greek GLE or a Turkish

Version I don’t know what they call it over there is that just I know they have a very similar thing and they like argue with who invented it but I think it was you guys okay I’ve never been to Greece I have been to Greece I went to Athens

Only Athens nowhere else but it was a beautiful city the food was incredible and very affordable I really really liked it I really want to go back but but our base knowledge of Greece isn’t too I would say compared to other countries it’s a bit higher historical

Wise but our knowledge of Greece isn’t very high so we’re here with barbs to learn a bit about the country I bet our uh compared to other countries our knowledge about their uh ancient religion is really high yes that is true it’s it’s a very popular in media I

Guess you could say yeah and uh we actually like learn about that in school like interesting yeah just just a cool thing to learn about but let’s check this out this is one of Barb’s old videos clearly cuz it’s only 13 minutes and gree would definitely be like a 40

Minute video these days so let’s check this out if you want to check out our travels around the world actually we’ve been mostly based in Asia but we’ve gone to Europe a few times on the channel uh Link in the description for that maybe hopefully one of these days we’re in

Greece I mean there’s been some cheap flights the from the Philippines degree surprisingly so one of these days I mean next year I me let’s do this you’re the one that I want you’re the one I want you’re the one that I want you get my reference right you get it I’m so

Clever right do you get my reference I don’t get it I don’t get it hey everybody I’m your host Barbie Greece is sometimes seen as like the cradle and birthplace of European civilization and thought so much of everything you see today has some kind of correlation to Greece pretty heavy

For a relatively small country in the Balkans eh now let’s find out how it all went down I played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey so I know everything about Greece you do so let’s just jump into is located Peri medane and countri East the country is divided into 13 regions one autonomous state

That we’ll talk about later and the capital Athens one of the oldest capitals in the world where nearly 40% of the entire population Liv make is generally divided into n geographic regions ayus Central grece thei Islands the aan islands and as you can probably tell

From its makeup Greece is one of if not probably the most seaf fairing Marine emphasized countries in the world I mean they do have the world’s largest Merchant greine Fleet After Japan and at any given point in Greece you are no more than 85 mil or 137 km from the sea

Greece has over 2000 the sea in Greece is just incredible too it’s like bright blue and just you can like see right through it when you’re standing on it so cool and it’s a very nice temperature I enjoyed it when the heat is getting to you in the summerlands only about 220 of

Which are inhabited and about 4,000 extra isets keys and sea rocks even the ones that are like right off the coast of turkey in fact the only two significant Islands belonging to Turkey in the aan are imbros or kachale and tenidos or Vol Jada now keep in mind the

Pelian peninsula is not an island it’s actually just barely connected by the Corinthian isness in the city of Corinth which has a huge Canal going through after independ from the ottoman times Greece was very intent on making sure they kept everything in the aan this has historically led to some controversy

From Turkey in regards to things like the delimitation of territorial Waters airspace the executive economic zone and the militarization of some of the islands nonetheless they’ve been able to work stuff out kind of but some things are still left in a gray Zone with the only land dispute they have over these

Two small scraps of land the imia or kardak Island finally let’s talk about the one autonomous State see this little guy right here the third finger on the weird monster claw looking Peninsula well that p is called hyi and the third finger is M AOS with a population of only about

2,000 where only men can go monastic State completely run by monks and Priests getting in is a little tough the number of daily visitors is restricted you have to have a special permit and you have to be a dude no women allow although historically some women have or intentionally got in including this

Former Greek beauty pageant winner she dressed up as a man and snuck in the three largest are of course Athens the capital thiki and patas however the three largest busiest airports are Athens heter Cleon on cre and then Thessaloniki coming in at third speaking of cre each inhabited Island in Greece

Kind of has its own charm of course there are too many things to list but a few to consider might be things like Corfu being the most familyfriendly Island delos is known for being the legendary birthplace of Apollo skyros and Hydra are kind of like the quiet

Islands where more people use mules Than Cars roads once held the Colossus one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World cardia once tried to become its own country at one point in time naos and poos are known for being the windy Islands great for sing in water sports Santorini with its ridiculously

Picturesque Cliffside White marble Villas and Patmos the incredibly significant religious site in which Jesus’s disciple John was exiled and wrote the Book of Revelation speaking of which GRE has more Arch crazy how many of those names are we were like planning a trip around different Greek Islands

And stuff so I know some of them from our planning but also just how many like different names I know from different media like games movies books things like that of those like different names it’s crazy it’s really crazy per than other country in the world only ranks

Behind a few other countries like turkey and Mexico in terms of overall sites now we all know Greece is a tourist hot spot like France more tourists than the entire population of Greece visit Greece every single year now we all know about the Acropolis and the Parthenon but

Other cool sites that stick out include the metora pillar Cliff mon necromant of ep the Oracle of deli with 17 oak trees sprouting with no visible evidence of roots the sculpted face on theore of the’s former LEP Colony that was really and of hundreds and hundreds of other

Sites there are to many list and if you know of any please write them down in the comments below and Sh in the we got to get down to the Found like he like he mentioned we were planning to go to G Greece I think we made a whole Greece trip but we instead went to Iceland and Italy that was one of our options of our 10 options we made it was like Co stuff we didn’t know if

It would be open or not so Iceland was one of the first places in Europe to open and we were able to get there so I don’t know it was really unfortunate but we had an awesome trip planned and then we ended up about a year later moving to

Georgia for a few months and we were planning to go through turkey and then into Greece and into the Balkans and that didn’t work out either and somehow we ended up in Asia yep and we’ve been in Asia for like last two years yeah so we’ve had so many plans we’ve done so

Much research just to actually go and do this someday will be so cool so cool so one day he took the left rocks threw them behind his shoulder and that’s how gree was made I I kind of paraphrase that a little bit don’t quote me on it

Too late it’s a quote now now Greece is funny because landwise they don’t exactly score high on the soil performance index and Overland Transportation has always been an issue but when you pretty much dominate The Maritime trading sector you can kind of turn a semi Rock Zone into a flourishing

Agrarian Hub and wait till we get to the Israel episode they’ve done quite an interes so much the first of all the country’s about 80% mountain is on both the mainland region and the islands two main mountain chains form along the Balan Mainland the pindus in the west and the rpes in the

Northeast Macedonia and th regions right around the area where thle meets Macedonia you find Olympus we were going to climb that that was our plan I don’t know how well that would have gone but we wanted to it would have been cool it would have been so cool it’s um I

Remember being in Athens I was surprised how like I don’t know if it was just the time of year I was there it was in the summer but how dry the and like Aid the landscape was it was really interesting that would have been sick Rivers we used to climb a lot back

Then too I don’t think we could do that anymore if we could I don’t know if we could nonetheless thear riveros flows through the pendis range and eventually empties into the thic Gulf right by the monster claw alsoo the largest lake can be in the South Central Greek region

Beautiful right well it comes at a cost Greece is one of the most seismically active countries in the world as it lies on two major tectonic plate zones the north Anatolian fault and the helenic trench this means that although frequent earthquakes in Greece are relatively mild because they usually have

Epicenters that are in the sea or you know Turkey just kind of takes the biggest hits Greece gets about 250 days of pure Sunshine a year 7% of the world marble mines are found in Greece and they’re also the third largest olive oil producer speaking of which if you’ve

Never had Greek food you are not allowed to die until you do popular dishes likea spanic Copa the classic Greek salad p with Yos the real kind not that cheap sley stuff down on 14th Street in which half the meat is made of cornmeal nonetheless agriculture only makes up

About 4% of their economic out most of the revenue at over 80% comes from tourism and service otherwise some notable spots in nature would be places like the vios Gorge the Sami cave in seonia the Siri e culture blueeyed spring volcanic rocks of lnos NAA waterfalls toar hot springs and so much

More oh come on we got to go now this is like a rugged seafaring realm of merchant ships and olives I said that like 3 minutes ago and skip this whole segment well on to the next then the video would only be like 9 Minutes Church once said Greeks don’t fight like

Heroes Heroes fight like Greeks okay first of all Greece has about 11 million people and has one of the highest aging populations in Europe the vast majority of the country at about 93% are made up of ethnic Greeks and the remaining 7% are mostly made up of other groups like

Albanians Gypsies and Turks they use the type C and F plug Outlets they Euro as their currency although prior to the euro they used the drma which was the oldest consistently used currency in the world and they drive I got a lot of drma on Assassin’s Creed

Odyssey now pretty much anyone that has ever been to school at around age 12 will know how much Greek history has played a role in the west world the history is too long to explain it in detail but in the quickest way I can put this Minoans Myans tribes and city

States fighting against Persians at thermop which is where Gerard Butler came in and did this Alexander the Great ushered in the Macedonian Empire dude he was Greek no many then there was Classical Greece Roman Greece Byzantine Greece ottoman Greece and then finally a revolution led by this guy in 1821 that started the

Modern version of Greece that we have today thanks to Alexander the Great multiple regions on three continents experienced some form of heliz or the influence of Greek culture and language and it went all the way down into the Byzantine era this means at one point in time even black Africans were speaking

Greek or at least the ancient Co a Greek language it became so widespread that today almost every language in Europe invokes some kind of Greek origin in C for example in English we have Academy telephone grammar and even geography not only that but Greek has in one way or

Another been spoken for over 3,000 years making it possibly the oldest consistently spoken and written language in the world the sh Dynasty n moving on we could go on and on talking about Greece’s explosively fascinating ancient history enshrined with Legend myth Wars Warriors trade alliances Gods beasts Sparta sculpture Arts leaders

Philosophers games and interesting clothing options that’ll take too long and we got to get through this episode about 90% of the people in Greece adhere to Christianity mostly in the Eastern Orthodox Branch just like many other countries in the Slavic world if you’ve ever met a Greek person you’ll know that

Most of them definitely have a unique way of carrying themselves many of you Greek geographies or as I like to call you geography Greeks have told me that the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is actually kind of a pretty accurate representation of a typical Greek family upbringing a little exaggerated but

Nonetheless not far off big families with strong opinionated parents that you do not talk back to there’s always like a weird Grandma mumbling something about the Turks and one of the cousins is probably lighting something on fire as your brother is getting into a fight but when Grandma brings in the suaki and

Musaka everyone sits down and it’s like a beautiful warm Norman Rockwell painting that’s the picture you giog Greeks have painted for me I don’t know how was that was that in the ballpark so in Greece voting is required by law as menes yeah that’s right they get while they’re

Young service many people Cate name day instead of their birthdays in which they have a party on the day that pertains to the patron saint that they got their name from land is kind of Li so to save space many of the Dead have their bodies

Exed after 5 years of being buried and then the bones are washed in wine and then placed in an ere retirement homes are incredibly rare as most Greek Grand typically end up living in their children’s homes traditional music can be found everywhere you’ll probably hear a lot of loots mandolins and tambourines

Traditional dancers are alive and well they all usually incorporate some kind of group number with fast-paced movements and jumpy actions oh and old guys smoking while playing back gaming there’s always old guys smoking and playing back gaming avoid the offensive Mah hands and just like we studied in

The Estonia episode Greece has an influx of women like a lot somewhere around 60 65% of the population is F this may or may not be the reason why Greece is also the world’s most how can I put this in a non- crude and vulgar phrasing for our

Children viewers um Greece is the most heyi hey active country in the world they even beat Brazil Brazil interestingly enough Greece also has the lowest divorce rate in the EU as well speaking of that okay let’s talk about some numbers brutal brutal sometimes image tarnishing numbers let’s just

Address the elephant in the room and get it over with okay yes Greece is in a little bit of an economic pickle right now basically in a nutshell back in 2001 Greece joined the EU long story short they misrepresented their financial statements they entered an IMF and ECB memorandum and now the current

Generation is paying for all the fiscally irresponsible actions the previous one made with things like hiked taxes as well as salary and pension Cuts you know son back in my day yeah back in your day you ruined my thing Greece also has the highest unemployment rate in the

EU as well with nearly a quarter of the population SE jobs nonetheless as depressing as that sounds Greece actually interestingly enough has the lowest suicide rate in the EU now before we move on here are some rapid fire notable contributions Greece has made to the world inventions like the Watermill

Alarm clocks lighthouses the crane construction levers catapults AC crude steam engine Central Heating and technically the first robot Concepts like citizenship early democracy atom theory various SCH mathematics like geometry advancements in disease study and Medicine philosophy theater Dynamic sculpture and art written history trial by jury and of course the Olympics

Notable Greeks would probably in that’s a country that currently has a population of 11 million out of the 8 billion people in the world that’s insane how got to be the most like possibly at least invention wise they were showing there possibly the most influential per capita what a

Contribution to the societies of the world right there wow untis Homer Ides pag uid Archimedes and abalonus peritus and also don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it Alex no yes yes I’m going to say he is GRE yes he is modern contemporaries like constantinos K theodori who taught Einstein singer

Nana musuri the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Phillip yep he’s actually half Greek Tommy Lee Yanni soccer players georgos Samaras georgos carun santinos mitu this crazy guy who ran like a thousand miles in 11 days Queen Sophia of Spain and of course America’s Greek sweetheart John Stamos don’t even try to get on this

List okay friend time a decent amount of those famous people which is uncommon for these videos yeah it is theyed so many sh dipla TI through the millenn that it’s ridiculous in a nutshell though they generally get along pretty well with other Orthodox countries mostly in Eastern Europe as Theology and Doctrine

Have always tied them in one way or another of those Orthodox countries Serbia is probably hands down the closest childhood friend serbians are like the nextdoor neighbor that they grew up with asking if Greece could come out and play ball nonetheless you don’t have to be Orthodox to roll with Greeks

Greeks love the Spanish and Italians almost as much each country shares a similar Mediterranean seafaring culture that has historically tied them for thousands of years although each claimed that they have the best olive oil Greeks have even adopted certain Italian words in their vernacular like unava unaa one

Face One race and as mentioned before Armenia is kind of like the Exotic Apostolic girlfriend they’ve been dating since like Century ad turkey is kind of like the whole Japan South Korea thing in which historically they’ve had a lot of drama because you know ottoman times

But they love to visit and piggyback off of each other’s cultures today there is virtually no tension between everyday citizens they’ve moved on mostly and sometimes even hard to distinguish a Greek person from a Turk just by looking at them but make sure you do not make

The mistake of mislabeling them that’s a huge no when it comes to their best friend though almost every giog Greek told me Cyprus many Greeks don’t even see Cyprus as a separate country but rather just an extension of Greece they love their little brothers with funny accents and would do anything for them

In conclusion modern day Greece may only make up about 132,000 km but has been the standard source of inspiration for so much of the Western World the fact is today you can look around and see how much of our modern society has been in some way sh or molded by something GRE

Kudos to you by the way Kudos is a tuned Gren is coming up next Greece my gosh the influence of that small country across the world and I mean if they influenced the Western World the Western World influenced so much of the rest of the like the Eastern world and stuff too

Especially with col colonization and stuff like that too so Greece that’s crazy whether by good means or bad means it has influenced low world that’s always how it works yeah that’s surprising that’s surprisingly this may have been the video geography now wise that we’ve known the most about yeah I

Would say that or Italy probably yeah Greece is just one of those staple countries everybody wants to go there everybody knows something about it except maybe Americans Americans don’t know anything about anything they might have even invented Staples there they probably did they invented everything apparently we’re going there some time

We’re doing a full on adventure I’m mark my words let us know where to go and more videos we can watch to learn about Greece see the next one guys bye

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