Ancient Greece

The principal contemporary historian was Thucydides, who wrote a very reliable account. His work ended in 411 BCE, and the remainder of the war was taken up, apparently seamlessly, by Xenophon. However comparison of this account with other sources shows that it is flawed and often unreliable. Later secondary historians include Diodorus Siculus, whose accounts are generally extremely unreliable.

Thucydides covered the period 431-411 BCE; Xenophon covered 411-404 BCE.

culture of greek

Doric style columns.

the citizens elected fair officials to create laws

Yes, sheep, goats, and horses were raised in ancient Greece.

The climate was hot dry summers more often than not, mild rainy winters. And covered 70-80% im mountains. It's also a penninsula, surrounded by the Agean Ionian and Meditteranean seas.

βασίλεια (basileia) is the most common word in the ancient literature.

A couple of hundred in Asia Minor were in the Persian Empire. Each of the Greek city-states, wherever they were located - in Europe, North Africa or Asia, followed its own interests, banding together in leagues as it suited them in their inter-city disputes, and changing leagues as it suited their interests.

Those cities in Asia Minor were of course restive under Persian rule, but many had cut deals in their own interest. The Persian preferred tactic was to bribe city ruling classes to go along with the Persian idea of peace and prosperity under their its rule, only resorting to force when this failed. This was witnessed by large Greek city defections at battles during the Ionian Revolt.

And the Revolt itself arose when Greek tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, got into trouble with the Persian governor over a failed attempt to pillage the Greek city-state of Naxos, and to save his own skin, set about stirring up the Ionian Revolt.

Greece was not a country. The independent Greek city-states stretched all around the Mediterranean. There were dozens of conflicts between Greek cities and alliances of cities and Persia over several hundreds of years from the 6th Century BCE onwards.

Greek had them about 2000BC give or take a few years

The religious structure of ancient Rome was a pantheon of gods, which means that they had many gods. In addition to the main state gods, the Romans also had personal deities that they favored and also family gods. They would often personify an abstract concept into a god/goddess, such as Fortuna, or even the city of Rome itself portrayed as the goddess Roma.

Power,and the fact that they could live forever.

Threat of annihilation by the Persian invasion

There was no 'Thrmopylai War'. there was a short engageent at Thermopylai as part of the Persian pust into southern Greece.

Very few people. No women, children or slaves. No 'barbarians'- foreign people. ----You had to be a citizen----

This leaves about 20% of the population (remember 50% of the pop. were women)

.: not many people at all

Myceneans painted their huts while Minoans didn't
The Minoans lived on the island of Crete in Greece. The Mycenaean lived in the mainland Peloponnese.The Minoan civilization began before the Mycenaean. The history of the Minoans show that their artwork was very different from the Mycenaeans.

The donkey which was the farm and transportation workhorse, or perhaps the ferret (commonly miscalled as cats)..

I got this from the online translators - ουσ. γάτα, γάτος.

They loved the body in motion and action, they defined the term athlete.

in ancient greece they would hang them push them of a clif drown them in a sack under water burning alive beatenn with a whip or a block of wood!

It was the British Empire. It might not have lasted the longest but it was the most powerful and it's Navy owned the waters. The Empire owned 1/4 of the world. The closest in size was the mongol.

Cerberus origionated in Greek Mythology, and was a three headed guard dog.

archaic: the human figure

classical: the natural world

hellenistic: emotion

Yes, it was their religion.