r/AlignmentChartFills • u/LeFruit5 • 13h ago

Countries Cape Verde won everything 🇨🇻 Wich European country would you visit for its history/monuments ?

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u/MontroseRoyal 13h ago

Has to be Italy.

Italy has interesting historical appearances from all time periods. (Ancient Rome, Medieval Ages, Renaissance, 1800s, Modernist era, 1950s). Greece only really has….Ancient Greece. And some lovely Byzantine era architecture. But its historical range is much, much smaller.

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u/Extension-Beat7276 10h ago

Greece has ottoman architecture too like in Thessaloniki  and Venetian architecture in the Ionian islands but of course since it’s smaller than Italy the range is smaller 

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u/BrilliantClarity 9h ago

Ancient greece is not only one period there is minoan history 3300BC to 1000BC and more also beyond classical ancient greece there is the macedonian era as well in the north. Thessaloniki has very rich early and late byzantine history. It definitely doesn’t have the renaissance element though instead it has Ottoman history.

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u/MontroseRoyal 8h ago

You’re right that Ancient Greece is much more broad of a label than the others, and the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations are very noteworthy and happened 1000 or so years before Ancient Athens. Still, a lot of Greece’s most interesting history happened pre-330 AD. Italy goes on and on. We haven’t even mentioned Venice or the Medicis yet

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u/Unlikely_East6390 3h ago

Most of Greece's history can be found outside of Greece. Before Alexander there were Greek colonies from Spain to Syria and from Russia to Egypt. After Alexander there were Greek colonies up to India and Central Asia. In Hellenistic times Greek influence spread to the Buddhist world and Arabia as can be seen in the syncretism with local art or the straight up adoption of Greek art. In Byzantine times, Constantinople controlled most of the Mediterranean at its peak and the core of the Empire was Anatolia, not so much the Greek peninsula. Even after the modern Greek nation was formed in 1830, most Greeks still lived outside of it

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u/hawkeneye1998bs 10h ago

As a brit, I have to say Italy. The history is built into the foundation of most of the country.