by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: February 11, 2009   Last Updated: September 17, 2009

In the peanut growing competition I believe the Greeks would have won. With the advantage of democracy in Athens only moderately subverted by supporters of oligarchy, given the peanut, Greek scientists would have grown more per hectare than the Chinese; after all, the ancient Chinese were bound by imperial oppression and would not have been so motivated to excel at peanut production. Chinese ancient art was good of course, because the introversion required of artists sculpting away at their little objects of art with a microscope provided them with relief from the more brutal forms of crude imperial exploitation in the rice paddy, building large projects and so forth-so long as they could produce great works of art they had it made.

Greeks were no slouches at art work either of course-yet entire societies like those of the Spartans were artless. Reproduction strategies for issuing good warriors was the raisons being with corn flakes...suffice it to say Spartans would never have invented sugar frosted flakes, though Athenians might have invented peanut butter if not crushed by Sparta cruelly.

In rowing the Greeks ruled the waves. Jason and the Golden Fleece quest in the G.S. Argo was unmatched by ancient Chinese. Triremes were good rowing vessels apt for ramming opposition forces naval elements. Chinese junks were not such fine vessels for war and were not developed till quite a few centuries later I believe. Genghis Khan's efforts to invade Japan probably utilized Chinese sailing designs and were twice thwarted by the inability to sail very well. Good Greek triremes on the other hand could have set out on a flat sea and rowed like the wind with high-tech disposable galley slaves tossed overboard to lighten the load when they were spent (I am just guessing at the war rational of slave owning military rulers and their applications of 'human resources'.

In the competetive creation of stand up comics I think the Greeks again would have defeated the Chinese. Hellenic Greece produced comic poets-playwrights like Aristophanes, and of course later a Hellenized Rome would issue satirists like Juvenal. In China Imperial rulers subject to cruel comedic barbs by writers would have chopped off the comedians hands or something before burying them in boiling oil under elephant dung. Life was less tragic for funny persons in ancient Greece than in ancient China.

In the Annals of Igsvague we find the inclusion of heavily altered scenarios of multi-universe permutation tolerant

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