geography: that region of the aegean world was divided by mountains, making travel, trade, communication, and unification difficult
single government was the fact that each city was an independent state
ancient Greeks
The first mathematical system of painting perspective
The Ancient Greeks celebrated the Solstice on or near December 25th. But Christmas did not exist. Jesus was purportedly born approximately 150 years after the Romans conquered Greece, and the first Christmas wasn't celebrated for another 100+ years.
Because everyone from the ancient Greeks onwards knew that the Earth is round.
Of course they did. But after 2500 years some of it is damaged.
the ancient Greeks had a democracy government
The mountainous geography kept the Greeks from uniting.
The ancient Greeks from a government that we know as DEMOCRACY!
democracy
One is the Ancient Greeks' and the other is the U.S.s
The first democracy.
Ancient Greeks gave their citizens a right to vote.
The ancient Greeks made great achievements in government, philosophy, science, and the arts.
The Greeks introduced democracy .
at first the greeks have a goverment where only the aristocrats members of rich and powerful families
Because of differing interests and social standings of the Ancient Greek city-states. For example, the conflict between Cicero (who is Athens for this film) and Mark Anthony (Sparta). Cicero was mainly concerned with politics and maintaining the stability of the Republic. Antony however, was "big, manly, soldier-guy". He was mostly focused on enhancing the military. You can imagine, scrawny, smart guy isn't going to get along with big, macho, soldier-guy. Same with the city-states. Their personal interests were more important then uniting to take on a bigger threat like Phillp II of Macedonia for example.
philosophy, religion, government, and also the arts.