Ancient Greece

Well if your talking about Athens the Capital of Ancient Greece - Women, criminals and slaves couldn't vote but in Sparta Women could.

Ancient - of or in time long past, especially referring to before the end of the Roman empire. Greek - a native or inhabitant of Greece. Ancient Greeks - inhabitants of Greece who lived before the end of the Roman empire.

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They had to be prepared to turn out and defend their territory, farms and city against attack . They therefore had weapons, and undertook regular military training and exercises. The Greek city-states were originally tracts of farmland around a fortress on a hill (acropolis) as a refuge against marauding neighbouring cities and nomads. As the people developed, a city grew up ablot the hill and was often walled for the same reason. War was their way of life - in pre-television days, breeding was an occupation and families were very large. And as their land was very limited, it helped control the population. Not enough though, so the cities had to load up the surplus on ships periodically, and send them off to seize new land and establish their own cities, resulting in over 2,000 cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Peace gave breeding time, war helped curtail the surplus o the breeding.

King Minos is a mythical character, written as the son of the Greek god Zeus & Europa, a Phoenician woman of high rank. The reason we call the culture 'Minoan' is because that is what the gentleman archeaologist Sir Arthur Evans named it while excavating Knossos. Yet there is little evidence that such a king existed in history.

In reality, scant proof exists that kingship was the norm in ancient Crete. Sir Arthur Evans was so keen to find proof of King Minos (or any king for that matter) on the ancient painted frescoes of Knossos (where white-skinned women are depicted in more positions of power than their red-skinned men), that he actually defaced a fresco by painting over a high ranking female (or male acrobat) & turning her/him into his 'Prince of the Lilies.'

The actual archeaological evidence on Crete suggests that the "palace" of Knossos was really a religious center. The frescoes, altars, statuary, even the coins found are more often with images of priestesses (or goddesses) enacting rituals. There are labrys (double axe) images everywhere which was the symbol of Crete's mother goddess (not god, & certainly not king). The only fresco image possibly depicting a navy battalion being sent off is overseen by two white-skinned women at the very top of the 'Minoan' city. No 'kings' visible anywhere.

The story is... The city of Athens was once called Attica and Poisoden and Athena both wanted to be the patron of the city so they challened each other to see who gave the most useful gift to the citizens. Poiseden gave them a fountain but Athena gave them an olive tree.

They developed because when they had a lot of food that would last a while, they were able to have children, which increased the population. Instead of them just hunting and gathering, they developed farming and planting. They soon learned new techniques and had different skills. They used their skills and made it into jobs. And soon, they were building a city.

The Spartan alliance. In the words of the contemporary historian Thucydides: 'Perdiccas, son of Alexander, king of the Macedonians, had from an old friend and ally (of Athens) been made an enemy. He had been made an enemy by the Athenians entering into alliance with his brother Philip and Derdas, who were in league against him.'

Ancient Greece was divided into several city-states. Some city-states had a hereditary king, or in Sparta's case, two hereditary kings. Other city-states, such as Athens, had a democracy and politicians were chosen by the people to be the Archon.

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The Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan conquered 8,000,000 square miles and it was the largest within one's lifetime.

The British Empire conquered 14.2 million square miles and it was the largest according to land space without regarding to life span.

There was no Greek empire to get wealthy. The Greek world comprised hundreds of independent city-states spread from Masilia (now Marseilles) around the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea littoral - Italy, Sicily, mainland Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean islands and North Africa.

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Although there was no Greek empire as such, the Athenian empire might be counted instead. It grew wealthy through its domination of the Delian League and the naval power it boasted in the Mediterranean. However, Greece as a whole was not united until the early 1800s; to that time, it a grouping of separate states or part of a larger empire besides itself.

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While there was a temporary Athenian empire, it comprised a fraction of the Greek city-states which were around the Aegean Sea. So it was not a Greek empire - it was the Athenian-dominated anti-Persian league. And the Greece of 1500 years later was certainly not an empire.

The Composite order is the order of Greek columns where volutes are added to the acanthus leaves of a typical Corinthian capital. The volutes themselves are generally a feature of Ionic capitals.

Greece is surrounded by The Aegean Sea (east and south) and the Ionian Sea (west).

The Peloponnesian League was formed by the city-state of Sparta largely from the cities in the Peloponnesian pensula (southern Greece) excluding Argos.

Ancient Greece did not expand into the Persian Empire. Greece was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states, the ones in Asia Minor being inside the Persian Empire. It was the Macedonians under Alexander the Great who expanded into and took over the Persian Empire. Alexander's successors divided the Empire into kingdoms of their own (Egypt, Syria-Mesopotamia etc , and these lasted a couple of hundred years until the expanding Roman Empire absorbed them.

The ancient Greeks traveled around the Mediterranean Sea, to Turkey, Persia and even to India.

I am not entirely sure about this. I'm pretty sure that there are 656, but you would have to check it elsewhere if you wanted to check if it is correct.

they are famous for fighting the Persians ,and defeating the Athenians in the peloponesion war.
It was famous because all men had serve in the military. The soldiers were treated very strictly.

James. James is an English name, therefore it does not change spelling when written in another language. It goes for all names - if, for example, you had a Greek pen-pal, you would write their name the right way (the Greek way) even if your letter was in English.

Greece is a mountainous country and it is difficult to travel by land. Greece was also a poor country and very few people could afford horses and often the mountain passes were too rugged for horse anyway. So to travel by land meant walking by foot over high mountains in difficult weather conditions - either very hot conditions during the summer or very cold in the winter.

The best way to travel was therefore by boat or ship. It was much faster and safer than traveling by land. Most of the major Greek cities were port cities or had port cities close by (Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Syracuse etc).

This is why naval command of the seas around the Greek world became so important, controlling the seas meant you controlled trade and communications and made it very difficult for enemies to move around. For instance Athens was almost entirely dependent on sea trade to bring in food for its population. Without sea trade it could not survive as it was simply impossible to bring in the supplies over a land route.

Yes, the Mycenaean people invaded Greece around 1900 B.C. and their leaders became the first Greek kings

Neolithic people were polytheistic, so they believed in multiple gods or divine forces. Even though there were many different religions, they almost always had a story of creation and an earth-mother type goddess.