Ancient Greece

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.

Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman Empire beginning c. 672. Used to set fire to enemy ships, it consisted of a combustible compound emitted by a flame-throwing weapon. Some historians believe it could be ignited on contact with water, and was probably based on naphtha and quicklime. The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to great effect, as it could continue burning while floating on water. The technological advantage it provided was responsible for many key Byzantine military victories, most notably the salvation of Constantinople from the first and second Arab sieges, thus securing the empire's survival.ђՇՇקร://ฬฬฬ.ץ๏ยՇย๒є.ς๏๓/ςђคภภєɭ/ยς๒6ợкคչ2๓קкŦ14ש5ฬ๏ן2ฬยค?รย๒_ς๏ภŦเг๓คՇเ๏ภ=1

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.........!!

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.