What is an oligarchic governmnen?
An oligarchic regime, also known more succinctly as an oligarchy, is any type of governing body that is answerable only to itself, and which is self perpetuating because it elects its own new members, as old members retire or die. The most familiar example is the politburo, in a country that is ruled by a communist dictatorship. Only the members of the politburo elect new members to the politburo; nobody else has any say in the matter. This is not like a hereditary monarchy, because it is not based on lineage. You do not have to be the son of a member of the politburo to be elected to the politburo. But then again, sometimes people do elect their relatives to positions of power. In North Korea, which at the present time is ruled by the 3rd generation of the Kim dynasty, the original oligarchy has turned into a monarchy in all but name. But communist China, which is not ruled by a descendant of Chairman Mao, is governed by a true oligarchy.
How do Greeks communicate with each other?
with Greek language of course... and pretty much the same way as other people around the world i guess, when the verbal doesnt work, they use sign / body language, lol...........
What are the Hippocrates principles?
Hippocrates was the first physician to treat diseases as the result of living habits rather than a punishment by the gods. The Hippocratic school believed that all illnesses were the result of an imbalance in the body of the four humours, fluids that when in health were naturally equal in amount. The four humours are, blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. Hippocrates recommended that a physician was to always be tidy, honest, calm, understanding and serious.
What was the name of the famous poet during the Greek Dark Ages?
Homer was the only poet we might say was famous from the Greek Dark Ages.
The Greek Dark Ages began with the collapse of Mycenaean culture, and lasted about 400 years. The dates would be about 1200 to 800 BC.
Homer is sometimes dated to as early as 950 BC, and sometimes as late as about 750. That being the case, he is arguably from the Greek Dark Ages.
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Compare and contrast ancient Greece and modern America?
Ancient Greece had much less technology, and their democracy (direct democracy) is very different from the current Greek democracy. Also, Ancient Greece believed in Greek gods and that they caused natural disasters, while today Greece has scientific explanations for natural events. There are many other differences. You should search this on Google.
What does the geography of ancient Greece look like?
It was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
Scribes are important because they could write for people who can't (because of injuries) and the people who don't know how.
What was the age of heroes during the time of Ancient Greece?
The Greek Heroic Age followed the Trojan war and lasted about six generations. This age is described by Hesiod in his 'Age of Man.' The heroes are often shown as having supernatural strength from the gods, nobility and divine favor.
What was the leading city-state in Greece 450 B.C. What made it strong?
Athens turned the Delian League which it had led against the invasion by the Persian Empire, into an empire of its own, continuing to extort their contributions for the war and maintaining its dominant war fleet.
Athens had strong walls an connecting walls with its port, which enabled it to defy a siege, import food, and attack its besiegers' home cities by sea.
It is very old. The oldest written works where we can learn about the Greek gods are from the 8th century BC: Theogoniaby Hesiodos and The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (whoever he was).
Before those there were, of course, oral traditions going back a very long time.
What did ancient Greece craftsman do?
Bronze, and later iron ore, were used by
Blacksmiths to make swords, ploughs, knives, and other equipment.
To create the heat required to work with the metal, they
used billows made of animal skin to blow air into their flames.
They used hammers to form it into a
sword or a tool after heating the metal.
Who is the god or goddess of birds?
Depends on the bird.
Okeanos and Hera hold the peacock as sacred.
Thoth, the Ibis.
Okeanos aka Enki also holds the raven sacred. Set does as well.
Athena's bird is the Owl, Zeus' bird is the Eagle.
Aphrodite is fond of the swan and the dove.
....and so on.
....but a god or goddess of birds in general? Not sure about that one. Perhaps somewhere.
How did the ancient Greeks make their paint?
- Stone, especially Marble & Limestone.
- Dirt
- Clay
- Charcoal
- Flower Petals
- Vegetable Dyes mixed with saliva or animal fat.
Why did changes occurred during Greece's dark age?
because nobody really knows what caused the changes between two periods in Greece history
What conflict brought city-states together?
In ancient times, the many different societies (usually organized as city-states) of Greek civilization were unified in times of stress or conflict, if not always unanimously. The greatest unifying conflict for the Greeks came from invasions by the Empire of Persia, whose incursions into the center of the Greek world in the 5th century BCE (or BC) were especially significant: it was only by banding together that the Greeks were able to repel the large-scale invasion by land and by sea.
The Persian War against the Persian Empire.
What caused the Parthenon's destruction?
what caused the destruction of the Parthenon was Turkey attacked Athens and it was destroyed by an explosion.
What geographical disadvantage did the athenians have in the war against Sparta?
They had turned their geographical disadvantages to their own favour by building the long walls from the city to their port. They could then defend themselves, supply themselves by sea and launch sea invasions against their enemies - all in their favour.
This allowed them to keep going for 27 years until the Persians gave the Peloponnesian League the money to field a fleet which destroyed the hitherto dominant Athenian one. Athens, then beseiged without supply or allied support, had to surrender.
Pentemychos - a pentagon - it had five angles where the seeds of the god Chronos were placed within the Earth in order for the cosmos to appear
What color did ancient Greece call the sky?
The Greeks called it kyronos, which is synonomous with bronze. in addition, Homer, writer of the illiad, called it "shining like a bronze shield."
Who wrote Greek theatre tragedies?
Sophocles. Among others, Sophocles wrote some of the most famous works, still studied in high schools and colleges to this day.
What was the daily life of a ancient Greece woman?
Women in most city-states of ancient Greece had very few rights. They were under the control and protection of their father, husband, or a male relative for their entire lives. Women had no role in politics. Women with any wealth did not work. They stayed indoors running their households. The only public job of importance for a woman was as a religious priestess.
What time period were the Greeks around?
The Greeks, or Hellenes, are the natives of Greece and other countries around the Mediterranean Sea like Cyprus, southern Albania, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization (which ended about 1200 BCE) lasted up to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE.
How did the Greeks keep their history alive during the dark age?
The Oral tradition kept the history alive.Storytellers retold legends and myths of there past.