Ancient Greece

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.

Initially a ruling group of thirty of its citizens with Spartan support. These were removed and democratic self-government re-established.

It was found by the americans ,when they heard that there was free land to buy, so they went in search of the land found it and called it greece because they had a lot of grease on the streats of greese so the american was like ,'lets name it greece'.

The Games were a celebration to the god Zeus.

Homer was a legendary character. We do not know with confidence anything about his life. There are stories about him, but we have little certainty about whether they are accurate, of even whether Homer was a real person or a traditional name used to attach the epic poems to.

It is thought that he may have lived some time in the period 6th to 8th Century BCE. He may have been born in Chios or elsewhere. Or it may have just been a name cooked up to attach to the versions of the epic poems which the wandering bards sang, and when aversion of this was written down after cursive writing was invented, the name Homer was attached to it. That's how vague our knowledge is.

The Dorians brought iron weapons to greek

In Sparta extensive rights. In Athens, they were virtual slaves, working on the farm, bearing and raising children, getting out only for the odd women's religious festival.

Ancient Greece was a collection of city states that were really only bound by language and culture. They came close to begin united by Alexander, but it was not to be, and they were not brought under a single rule until they were conquered by the Roman Empire. They remained part of the Roman Empire until 1453, when they were conquered by Ottoman Turks, though historians today tend to call the medieval Roman Empire by the name Byzantine, a name that was not used at the time. They remained under Ottoman control until 1830, when the modern state of Greece was established.

Athens and Sparta

Using Homer as the source the number of ships comes to 1196 (ILYAD: Book 2: The Great Gathering of Armies 590-850)

they are as follows: grouped by numbers

Boeotians - 50, Euboeans - 50

Minyas - 30, phocaeans - 40, Pheddipus and Antiphus - 30

Athens - 50, Achilles - 50

Agamemnon - 100

Menelaus - 60, Buprasium and Elis - 40

Arcadians - 60, Meges - 40

Argos - 80, Thoas - 40

Idomeneus - 80

Locrians - 40, Nestor - 90

Podarces - 40, Tricca - 30

Polypoetes - 40, Prothous - 40, Guneus - 22

Ajax - 12, Odysseus - 12, Rhodes - 9, Nireus - 3, Eurypylus - 40, Eumelas - 11

and finally Philoctetes with 7 ships

You will note there is 10 lines with 1000 ships then 1 line with 102 ships and the final grouping has 94 ships for a total of 1196

There are no words in Greek that start with q but some have q in them

Persia expanded its empire to what it thought were natural boubdaries - in the west to the Augean Sea.

In doing so it absorbed the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands. These cities appealed to their mother-cities in mainland Greece, and the latter began intervening in what Persia regarded as its territory. When the Ionian cities revolted, Athens and Eretria intervened, ending up going too far in burning the Persian provincial capital of Sardis.

Persia responded with an attempt to capture the two cities and instal puppet regimes as a warning to the rest, and to keep those cities in check. The attempt failed, defeated at Marathon.

Persia then realised that the only way to keep the Greek mainland cities quiet was to absorb them all under local puppets with a Persian governor. This invasion in 480-479 also failed, and Persia was obliged to withdraw and eventuall accept the independence of the Greek cities in Asia Minor under a peace brokered in 449 BCE.

The gladiators trained in their "ludi" or schools, under the instruction of their trainers, who were either ex-gladiators themselves, or specialists in some category of combat brought in by the owner of the school.

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Arable land and metal ores.

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Order

The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE devastated Greece. Sporadic warfare continued to weaken the city-states, enabling Persia to regain control of the Greek cities in Asia, and the weakness opened the way for Philip of Macedonia to establish hegemony over the cities of mainland Greece. His son Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and after his death his generals carved his empire up amongst themselves, dominating the Greek world.

There is no evidence that Athenian girls ever received education outside of the home. There is, however, evidence that some girls were literate.