List of Hellenic / Greek Accomplishment (Update in progress):
In the United States today:
Greeks have the highest amount of education of all the ethnicities in the United States U.S, and the Greeks are 2nd highest in terms of financial success.
Greatest Civilizations in the History of Mankind:
Byzantine Empire: Longest running empire. Lasted 1000 years.
Alexander the Great Empire from Macedonia (northern Greece): Conquered all of the known world.
Modern Greece: Largest Commercial Naval Fleet in the world.
Science:
Medicine: 58% of medical lexicon eg. anatomy, derive from Greek origin; Hippocrates (The father of medicine) Around 400 B.C., one of the earliest medical documentations concerning the pulse as a diagnostic sign;Galen - Anatomy,
Astronomy: Catalogue of over 2000 stars, Measured Earth Circumference (2100 years ago), Measuring Distance to Moon (2200 years ago), Estimated Distance to Sun (2000 years ago); First theory that the sun is at the center of the solar system, and that
Biology: Evolution, Zoology, Embryology,........
Physics
English Language: Has borrowed over 30% of terms from Greek origins.
Sports: Olympic Games, Boxing, Wrestling, Marathons, et al.......
Music:
Mathematics:
Politics: Democracy
Architecture: First washroom, architectural design.
"Excepting machinery, there's hardly anything secular in our culture that does not come from Greece. Schools, gymnasiums, arithmetic, geometry, history, rhetoric, physics, biology, anatomy, hygiene, therapy, cosmetics, poetry, music, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, theology, agnosticism, skepticism, ...., ethics, atheism, politics, politics, philanthropy, tyranny, aristocracy, monarchy, democracy...these are all Greek words...first matured for good or evil by the abounding energy of the Greeks." - Will Durant