Ancient Greece

They gave us lots of things like books and stuff like that. They also effected our way we write because they improved their writing system which made our writing system today have lots of improvement on our system. An example of literature from Ancient Greece is The Oddysey by Homer.

In 480 BCE, the Athenians evacuated their population to other cities eg Epidaurus. The military forces embarked and drew up their ships, along with the rest of the Greek fleet on the island of Salamis as they prepared for a decisive naval battle.

A direct democracy is a democracy in which the people directly vote on laws and policies being passed/made.

It was a direct democracy, that is the citizen Assembly met every couple of weeks to make all decisions and pass laws. The citizens were susceptible to leaders good at oratory in influencing the Assembly, and the long term or side effects or self interest of actions promoted by the urgers (demagogues = people-leaders) were often overlooked. After being led into several disastrous decisions, the Assembly passed a law of 'deceiving the people' with the death penalty attached.

The people had limited confidence in the Council. Important actions often had a tag 'the generals will action it' - the generals were still elected from reliable people as the Council was selected by lot, and the citizens did not want to be led into battle by some donkey who was selected randomly by the lot machine - so they learnt from bitter experience to turn to the generals to implement non-military matters as well.

The city reverted to oligarchic control several times in time of crisis in order to get action without endless discussion and dissent. When it finally settled down the people became bored with it and attendance at the Assembly sharply declined, leading the Council to offer inducements to attend, and at one stage having slaves sweep across the agora with a chalked rope to drive the people there to the assembly to avoid being marked and identified as democratic slackers. The democratic discussion-decision system eventually degraded to a vote-only yes-or-no system on measures proposed by the Council.

spartan men were allowed to leave the military camp at age 50.

the Olympics were held in Olympia!!

By negotiations between the heads of the families involved, who then arranged payment to settle the problem, and if necessary punished their own relatives. And on the unusual occasions if this did not work, physical violence.

On a high level, negotiations between city-states, often with a third city-state acting as intermediary, and if this failed, war.

No, the Chinese invented paper money during the Song dynasty and also had a credit system called "flying money" during the Tang dynasty. The Romans invented gold coins.

Today, many of us have been taught that the Greek Gods were mythological beings. In the ancient times, the people revered their Gods just as much as religious people do today. In the earliest attempts to explain the world around them, philosophers and respected story tellers would use the names of people they had heard of from others.

According to the Historical Theory all the persons mentioned in mythology were once real human beings, and the legends relating to them are merely the additions of later times.

The Allegorical Theory teaches that all the ancient myths were symbolic. The Physical Theory subscribed to the idea that the elements of air, fire, and water were originally the objects of religious adoration, and the deities were given human form and names to explain these powers of nature.

As the people heard the stories, they believed them to be a reasonable explanation of the way things were, and accepted the Gods into their daily lives.

Aesop was famous for writing down fables, traditionally called "Aesop's fables."

The Romans and all other ancient societies got their slaves by various means. Many were prisoners of war, or inhabitants of a captured city. Some were sold to the Romans by owners in different countries. Some were children of slaves and yet others were abandoned babies that a person would take in and raise as a slave.

They have brought countries together, as well as tearing them apart. The Islams took over almost all the Middle East a while back and spread technology, some religions were the only way to get educated in the middle ages, becoming a nun or monk.

Sparta.

There is no solid proof that Agamemnon was real, so he must be regarded as a mythological figure. In the story of the Trojan War, an alliance was formed among the Greek states, each with their own commanders. Agamemnon was in overall command of the expedition against Troy. Agamemnon was also brother to King Menelaus of Sparta and brother in law to Helen of Troy.

In Australia and Athens you have to be a citizen over 18 to vote.

They also both had a structured Government where there is a political assembly, law makers, the people who put the laws into practice and the people who asses the laws. All of these groups (law makers etc.) are one of the greatest ideas and biggest influences to today's modern democracy.

Another great similarity is that any one can express their opinion in a political assembly/meeting.

In Australia and Athens you have to be over 18 to join politics.

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Ancient Greece sprees then selves by whiting poem's, fables and short stories.

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the Mycenaeans borrowed heavily from the Minoan culture.

Greek literature during the Golden Age was characterized by realism, and religious ideas. Much of Greek literature was poetry, history, or drama.

Some Greeek writers and historians during the time of the Golden Age were Herodatus, who wrote the history of the Persian Wars; Thucydides, who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War; Aeschylus, who wrote tradgedies; Sophocles, who wrote dramas, Euripides, who wrote psycological tradgedies; and Aristophanes, who wrote comedies.

Ancient Greece was made up of many city-states, each with their own customs and lifestyles. In general terms, girls married at between 14 and 18 years old; men were normally in their 20s or 30s before they married because they were often committed to military training or some other profession.

In Athens marriages were usually arranged to take place in the month of Gamelion (roughly our January), which was considered the most favourable time.

The Athenian navy did not defeat the Persian navy. There were several naval battles between combined Greek city fleets which defeated Persian fleets from 480 to 449 BCE. They defeated the Persian fleets by a combination of good strategy and tactics.

Asia minor, Thessaly ,and Attica

They where held every four years. Although their beginnings are obscure, 776 B.C. and abolished 394 A.D. are the currently accepted facts. :)