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My take? Well....
.. At some point, all of humanity has some strange connection. It's debatable, and therefore, a stubborn subject. My own take is rather fanciful, but it IS Atlantis.

Physicists say that what we see is only one dimension of all existance. Our "universe" is actually Mode 1 within a multiverse. Perhaps this Atlantis was a different Mode that was tapped into, like the realm of the gods (will explain that one someday).

I believe in some way that there is an Atlantis. How could there not be in the olden days the water could have eroded the earth away and it sank by the shifting of the earths crusts. and also after a long, long time of being under water all the artifacts in the water either got destroyed or buried under the earth.

I believe it was simply a mistake, a garbled interpretation of something passed down the generations, and that "Atlantis" is actually an existing mediterranean island.

Atlantis, probably was real, but only a small island. The water level probably rose, because of the worlds moving plates, and submerged the island.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html

People have claimed to find Atlantis before, but this is quite intriguing smile

You got a goodly number of good facts, and a few that are a little off.
Alexander WAS a Macedonian, and he did "unify" Greece, but only by force and having them drive eastward against the Persians, who had all but given up the idea of taking Greece.

Another point of interest is that almost every culture out there has a "flood story" where a previous culture, more than not it was far more advanced, was obliterated by some action, usually a precipitation of the will of the gods (or God).

Sure enough, a lot of previous cultures were much more advanced, but the following peoples always want to assume that they were less, to make themselves greater. (If all you do is say "Remember when BLANK was so much better?" then all you're doing it looking, not fixing.) Egyptians learned medicines through mummification and passed that on to the Greeks, and even the most primitive culture perform trepanations.

Lastly, to give a small correction, "gross ignorance and superstition" has existed as long as the Christian church has named others pagan, which was just before the Dark Ages. The moment that occured, all the knowledge those people had was condemned. The Christian base set it self up at the end of the Roman Empire, and modelled itself upon that government style. Unfortunately, the Romans looked to their leader, the Caesar, for knowledge, and that was only made worse by the fact that the Romans sough trade and money, not technology (They killed many of the great minds that were living in Greece at the time). When the Holy Roman Empire took up position about the 700s, they believed everything you needed to know was in the Bible, and if it wasn't in the Bible, then the Pope knew the answer. THIS was the blindness that lead on until about 1300, when the Black Plague arrived from China and all of Europe suffered while the Pope hid in his France location, rather than lead prayer, which was the last-resort effort among the peoples. It is from that point on that the starting to rebuild knowledge began, with the early workings of the people to entertain each other ( Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one offspring ) and then with the advent of books for enjoyment, came those for learning.

Thanks for the corrections, Thor... Brillaint examination of facts, my friend. wink I'm glad you could help me out, I used to be pretty good at history, but that has died in the last four years or so. sweatdrop