5th May 1687
Athens
The once glorious city, the cradle of Western civilisation, and the place where one of the best philosophers, scientists, and intellectuals like Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Theories, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democratus, Archimedes, Euclid, and Hippocrates lived and worked, had been turned into ruins under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Traces of dried-up blood could still be seen on the destroyed statues and murals all over the city. From one glance, it is clear that the destruction of the city was not without any resistance.
Unfortunately, even after the Ottoman Empire had been destroyed, the situation had not improved at all, because the economic collapse of Greece was not a simple economic crisis brought by the stock market, but a complete destruction of productivity throughout the major regions of Greece.
