I'll raise a counterpoint then: how many independent countries are now known as "China"? The difference is that the Roman Empire fell apart, and everyone kind of reverted to their original culture or became something new. Same thing happened in Greece after the ~~centuries-long Turkish occupation and war crimes~~ complicated events.

The analogy is very messy now and it doesn't make sense anymore ^~😂~^. But I guess the end result is that it's not so simple at which point one nation ends and another begins. Real history is messy and once you actually look into it, it's not a simple thing at all.

In the first place "Greece" wasn't even one thing, it was a messy collection of city-states and alliances that kind of got along sometimes. I think many places in the world was like that back then, actually. Then Alexander the Great happened and a lot of the world was Greece. Then it wasn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So yeah. You can make things as complicated or as simple as you feel like.

• Level 1 complicated: it's a 9000 year old ancient Greek skeleton

• Level 2: it's an ancient skeleton found in what is now known as Greece

• Level 3: it's a Pelasgian skeleton

I wouldn't call level 1 "incorrect". I would call it "simplified". People who know Greece didn't exist 9000 years ago will already know the truth. Everyone else won't really care. But I know many people here on Lemmy are "semantics enthusiasts".