Caucasian civilly backward race thrives on illegally conquest occupation of othe

Caucasian civilly backward race thrives on illegal conquest occupation of other settled people. *** Eventually the Greeks acquired the civilizing arts of the people they had conquired. The Greeks learned shipbuilding, seamanship, and stoneworking--skills at which they excelled. More significantly, they borrowed from the non-Greeks' agrarian religion, (settled land owners) which perhaps involved the worship of a mother goddess and a family of fertility deities. Non-Greek goddess and beliefs,imported into Greek Church, (not religion) served to complement and refine the warrior Greeks'Indo-European--type worship of a skyfather and male gods. A new spirituality was  born.Thus in the centuries after 2100 B.C. came the creative fusion of two culture--one primitive Greek,one non-Greek.To these two elements was added a third:the example and influence of the dynamic, non-Greek, Minon civilization of Crete. For reasons never adequately explained, the Greeks of the next  15 centuries showed a spiritual and intellectual genius that expressed itself in church awe (not religious) storytelling, poetry, sports, the material arts, trade,scientific studies, military organization, and in the government of their self-contained city-states particularly Athens. Source: Ancient Greek world, by David Sacks