I would like to give a brief answer to the question "Why the rest of the European countries ended up having industrial revolution and the Greeks did not". Greece was under the cruel ruling of the Ottoman Empire for 4 centuries (1423-1821) and during this period there were no schools or universities (the Ottomans tried to erase every ethnical and cultural identity from the Greeks - schools, churches and universities were burned). After the Greek revolution of 1821 the Ottomans were defeated and left from Greece. That's when Greece started to rebuild itself in order to restore simple human conditions that other countries already had. Moreover after 1 century during the 2nd world war the Germans burned again the Greek infrastructures (less than the Ottomans) and the story repeated...
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I would like to give a brief answer to the question "Why the rest of the European countries ended up having industrial revolution and the Greeks did not". Greece was under the cruel ruling of the Ottoman Empire for 4 centuries (1423-1821) and during this period there were no schools or universities (the Ottomans tried to erase every ethnical and cultural identity from the Greeks - schools, churches and universities were burned). After the Greek revolution of 1821 the Ottomans were defeated and left from Greece. That's when Greece started to rebuild itself in order to restore simple human conditions that other countries already had. Moreover after 1 century during the 2nd world war the Germans burned again the Greek infrastructures (less than the Ottomans) and the story repeated...