>>13290144>Greek never managed to spread outside of colonies.It was main language of Oriental world until Arab invasions, even in Italy south italians spoke greek until 17th century.
Greeks had great success at spreading their language, their language was already importat across the Mediterranean before Macedonian expansion, greeks were known as great traders and artists by ancient cultures, who tried to imitate them.
>Latin was adopted en mass by the entire West, Africa, Illyria and ThraciaAside of West Africa, that spoke (and sometimes preferred) also punic and berber (something denounced by St. Augustine), the regions you mention were literally shitholes, the Africa of Antiquity.
