Ancient Greece

The Acropolis

polis = city, acro = peak, highest etc.

Everything. They imitated everything that the Greeks did. For example, sculptures. Plus, they held the greeks captives as slaves in order to "use" their intelligence.

He tarried too long after the Greeks decided to withdraw from the pass at Thermopylae having been betrayed by the Trachinian, efialtis. Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, another 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans were all killed.. On the other hand, they stayed behind holding the pass to let the other 7,000 vastly outnumbered Greek defenders withdraw before the Persian cavalry could break through and cut them down. He gets a tick.

as far as I can remember a paricipants loin cloth came off and his father was a politician of high rank and the rest took theirs off as not to make him feel uncomfortable or make him feel insulted, if you can confirm or deny please email me, I cannot remember where I heard this, Thank you

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he underlying cause of the war was Sparta's fear of the growth of the power of Athens. This is Thucydides' own final judgment. The whole history of the rise and power of Athens in the 50 years preceding justifies this view, though the immediate occasion of the war concerned Corinth, Sparta's chief naval ally. Since the peace of 445 B.C. Pericles had consolidated Athenian resources, made Athens' navy incomparable, concluded in 433 B.C. a defensive alliance with the strong naval power Corcyra (Corinth's most bitter enemy), and renewed alliances with Rhegium and Leontini in the west. The very food supply of the Peloponnese from Sicily was endangered. In the Aegean Athens could always enforce a monopoly of seaborne trade. To this extent the Peloponnesian War was a trade war and on this ground chiefly Corinth appealed to Sparta to take up arms. The appeal was backed by Megara, nearly ruined by Pericles' economic boycott, and by Aegina a reluctant member of the Athenian Empire.

But if Sparta had not also been eager for war then peace would have lasted. Sparta was waiting an opportunity that came when Athens was temporarily embarrassed by the revolt of her subject-ally Potidaea in Chalcidice in the spring of 432 B.C. The rebel city held out until the winter of 430 B.C. and its blockade meant a constant drain upon Athenian military, and naval resources. Sparta seized the opportunity. Confident of speedy victory she refused an offer of arbitration made by Pericles. Instead, Sparta sent an ultimatum that would have practically destroyed Athenian power. Pericles urged the people to refuse and Sparta declared war.

Another Viewpoint:

Athens, having converted the anti-Persian alliance it led into an empire after peace was made with Persia, was overconfident and interfered in the affairs of other city-states outside its empire. Disputes over Potidaia and Corcyra came to a head when Athens imposed ruinous trade restrictions on Megara, a member of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The League demanded these be lifted, Pericles persuaded Athens to be confident of its walls and war fleet and refuse, and war ensued.

Hesiod - a farmer and philosopher author late 8th Century BCE.

Homer - a bard who reduced the bardic stories to writing late 8th

Century BCE.

Aeschylus - a poet who wrote plays 5th Century BCE.

Sophocles - a poet who wrote plays after Aeschylus 5th Century BCE.

There is the story of the Trojan war, an extended piratical raid from Greece looting Asia Minor and the islands.

It was also the ending of those Mycenean Greeks, with a confused movement of the 'Sea Ppeoples' through the Eastern Mediterranean, leading to the 'Dark Age' from which theclassical Greek world emerged several centuries later.

He expanded Macedonia's influence to control Greece. He also planned to take over the Persian Empire, but his assassination prevented this and his son Alexander reaped the benefit.

The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions held for held in honor of Zeus because they want some thing to do and to honor their gods. According to Greek Mythology, Hercules started the games in celebration of his defeating and killing King Augeas and his sons, because Augeas did not give Hercules his promised reward after Hercules had cleaned the king's stables. After the original games, they were repeated every four years.

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The rich male citizens, the ordinary male citizens with subsistence farms, the non-propertied class, resident aliens, women, slaves.

To work in the home and vegetable garden, to bear and raise children, to supervise any domestic slaves. They were kept in virtual purdah, getting our occasionally for a women's religious festival.

Other women were slaves, courtesans and prostitutes.

What was two thing spurred industry and the spread of Greek culture

Alexander the Great united people through a common culture (Greek), allowing the people to keep their own religion and honoring all the religions of the people he conquered, and adopting parts of the cultures of his conquered territories.

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Athenian aims: 1. Secure their city against land invasion. 2. Maintain control of their empire and continue to extract the revenue from it to pay for their navy and army and food for the city. 3. Use their amphibious forces to maintain control of the seas, to allow supply of the city and to contain and harrass the Spartan-alliance cities.

Invasions by the Dorian Greeks and the Sea Peoples.

He said it all started off with some 'women-stealing on both sides'. This was escalated beyond reason when the Greeks over-responded over Helen and destroyed Troy, leading to 'perpetual enmity'.

The staple food in Rome was grain. The poor could only afford to eat grain-based food. The Roman state distributed a free grain dole to the poor. Rome imported huge amounts of grain to feed her massive population. Half of this came from Egypt, the breadbasket of the empire. Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia were the other important suppliers.

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For the most part they didn't. At the time of the Roman Empire, there was no "school", families who wanted their children to be educated hired private tutors or bought slaves to perform that function.

well some new things were that people found out how to fix broken legs and how to help people give birth. another thing was that they invented ournumberss that we use today. 0-9!! thatz a longgg time to keep the same numbers.........!!