[nanis]

> I am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks."

Why not start with the written word[1]?

It seems to me for the origins of today's "Western" civilization, one ought to look further northwest than Greece[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_wri...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Origins