Because the Greeks and Romans give off excellent information about us, and the way they lived back then. It educates us in very different ways including the past, how our government developed and ect..
As a matter of fact the creator of math was Greek...
we use Roman and Greek objects everyday, such as doors, baths, door frames, fireplaces, ect..
Slavery was endemic and practised by almost everyone during the age of ancient Greece. Ancient Greeks were taken as slave by others and took people as slaves of other nation city/states
The ancient Greeks did different games to our Olympic games
First came the hunter-gatherers and then the farmers. After farmers, the people on the island of Crete became civilized and thus the Minoans came to existence, becoming the first Ancient Greeks. So basically, the hunter gatherers and farmers who lived in Greece are the Ancient Greeks ancestors.
Ancient Greek people lived 35-40 years they lived in 500 bc.
They call them Xeni, alodapi.********************Ancient Greeks called the foreigners barbarians (βάρβαροι) but without the negative meaning that this word has nowdays. It meant mostly people with another language and also foreigner, people from another land.
The cultures of Rome and Greece.
Religion, poetry, philosophy, astronomy (there was no difference between astrology and astronomy to the people of the Renaissance) science, mathematics. They were very interested in studying the Ancient Greeks: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates. All renaissance scholars had to know Greek and Latin.
Humanism was based on the values of ancient Greeks and Romans. The emphasis on reason, logic, individual potential, and human achievement seen in Greek and Roman thought formed the foundation of Humanism during the Renaissance.
People of the Renaissance looked at the achievements of the Greeks and Romans as inspiration for their work.
No, Greeks are not Roman. Greeks are the people of Greece, an ancient civilization that predates the Roman Empire. Romans are the people of Rome, an ancient civilization that grew to prominence after the Greeks.
The ancient Greeks wore sandals.
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The Renaissance happened because people started reading ancient texts and looking at ancient art. They then thought that they should create such as well, and used these ancient arts as their influence as well as creating their own, new forms of art.
The ancient Greeks created myths because to explain the gods' actions.
Shakespeare lived during the Renaissance, so everyone he knew, he knew during the renaissance.
They were the first people to write the alphabet. The Ancient Greek's