Written by Ioannis Neonakis. We are a people with a continuous and unbroken historical presence for more than 4,000 years. Besides the continuity of blood (which has secondary importance), we mainly have an uninterrupted cultural continuity. We, the Greek people, have a distinguishing characteristic over the other civilizations, that we've undergone great historical maturation and evolution. This can already be seen as we progressed from our society-centric before-Christ civilization (that is, of examining the relationship of humans as truth and as something of greatest importance) to a new civilization, the Romeiko (Gr: Ρωμαίικο) civilization. This civilization emerged after successive fermentations within the Eastern Roman Empire and was essentially founded on the rebirth of the Hellenistic tradition and culture from the faith in Christ resurrected in the flesh. In other words, the key and the living breath of this new civilization...