Hellenic civilization

Some respondents I queried suggested that the world would not be affected to a great extent by the removal of the Greek or the Italian peninsula. In other words, civilizations such as the Greeks and Romans would have been formed anyway, just in another location. The ancient Hellenic tribes (c. 1000 b.c.e.) would have moved into some other area, such as Asia Minor. Presumably, they could have had a similar historical effect. 

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