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Ancient Greece
The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
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What is the name for the large hill around which a Greek city-state grew?
Many Greek cities were built on a rocky hill called an acropolis. The name acropolis was from the Greek word akros, meaning highest, and polis, meaning city.
What were the main social classes of Ancient Greece?
The Ptolemaic (Greek/Macedonian) rule of Egypt from 332- 30 BCE caused Egypt to be a major influence on Greek religion and dieties. A common example of this is the worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis, who was likened to Greek goddesses such as Demeter and Aphrodite.
What is the name of a picture made of small cubes of colored stone or glass?
If you are referring to the art in general, as in the type of art famous for depicting Bible scenes in cathedrals and church sanctuaries, it is simply called stained glass, or Mosaic, art.
Why were the epics of importance to Greeks of the Dorian period?
Epics of importance to the Greeks of the Dorian periodare a source of much of Greek mythology. Through the myths, the Greeks sought to understand the mysteries of nature and power of human passions
Why did the Persians invade Greece in the battle of plataea?
They invaded in 480 BCE by marching from Asia Minor through Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly.
They were accompanied by a fleet which kept pace with the ground troops and protected the sea resupply lane.
Did Macedonia gain power in the ancient world during the reign of King Phillip the 2nd?
He extended Macedonian control throughout Greece and planned takeover of the Persian Empire. His assassination left the latter to be done by his son and successor Alexander.
Which ancient Greek invented the thermometer?
The first recorded thermometer was invented by an Italian - Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) at the end of the 16th Century.
How is slavery practiced in today's society?
Slavery exists here in the United States but not in a fashion that most might be familiar with. Though the term is typically associated with forced labor, the slave trade and the use of slaves as labor in the later 1700's the term can also be used when no labor is present. Slavery is also often referred to as "bondage" which can be defined as " the state of being under the control of another " or "someone entirely dominated by some other influence"
In this case, when dependence is by choice, one can see that slavery/bondage exists throughout the US. All manners of abusers are slaves to their socially unacceptable urges, drug addicts are slaves to their narcotics as surely as welfare recipients are enslaved by the unearned federal subsidies they so readily crave.
The name of the thirty-year between Athens and Sparta?
There were not 36 wars between Athens and Sparta.
How long was the battle of Thermopylae?
The Battle of Thermopylae took place in late summer or early fall of 480 B.C.E. In response to the latest Persian invasion of the Greek homeland, a small group of Greek allies, led by a soon-to-be-famous contingent of Spartans, assembled at the choke-point of the pass of Thermopylae in the hope of defeating, or at least delaying, the Persian army approaching from the north.
What are all the names of the ancient Greek goddesses?
Helen and Penelope are names of Ancient Greek literary characters from The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Aspasia was a woman in Athens during Pericles' time.
Other examples of names include: Olympias, Melissa, Lysandra, Korinna, and Hypatia.
What goods and services were produced in ancient Greece?
Pottery is an example of goods and services that was product in ancient Greece. Farming and manufacturing were two well known industries in ancient Greece.
Greece is a very rocky place which makes it very hard to grow food.
How many Persians fought against the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae?
Who was there
The 300 Spartans were Spartan king Leonidas' bodyguard. Sparta was concerned with defending its own land from a Persian amphibious raid, and so was not about to send off a main force. Leonidas also had about 2,000 serf-light infantry. There were also about 4,000 warriors from those Greek states in the Thermopylai area which had not already gone over to the Persians.
How do we tell who won?
Who won hangs on the objectives of the both sides, and who was successful in achieving them.
What were the objectives and outcomes?
The Persian objective was to capture peninsular Greece to establish an ethnic frontier, as the latter had been supporting revolution in the Greek cities along the coast of Asia Minor, which was part of the Persian Empire. Xerxes had a large land force of about 150,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry, and 600 warships with 120,000 crewmen.
The Persian war fleet was superior to the Greek one, so it provided both outflanking amphibious capability and protection for the resupply fleet; the amphibious capability meant the Greek forces could not concentrate, remaining at home defending their cities, and so able to be picked off one by one.
The Greek strategy was to neutralise this war fleet, both to even up the operational mobility equation and, by depriving the Persians of their essential sea supply route, ultimately force their withdrawal. Given the inequality of the fleets, the Greeks determined to force sea engagements in narrow waters to minimise the effect of the opposing superior ships and numbers: they closed the land route to the south at the Thermopylai pass to force a Persian outflanking amphibious operation in the adjacent strait. When three days of naval engagements failed to give a Greek victory, and the Thermopylai position was outflanked on land, the fleet withdrew to the strait between Salamis and Athens, and by a stratagem of splitting the Persian fleet, defeated the main force and so exposed the sea supply line.
With no resupply, Xerxes was obliged to take half his army back to Asia Minor and the remaining part had to withdraw and winter in northern Greece. The following spring the southern Greek states, no longer threatened by enemy amphibious landings, were able to concentrate in full strength at Plataia and defeat the remaining Persian army and its Greek allies. In parallel, the Greek naval forces captured the rump of the Persian fleet at Mykale in Asia Minor.
Romantic stories of the stand at Thermopylai, based on it being designed to defeat the invasion, conceal the real strategies of both adversaries. The centre of gravity of the might of Persia outside Asia was its Egyptian, Phoenician and Asian-Greek war fleet. Its neutralisation mandated a critical enemy land force reduction and removed the threat of amphibious invasion of the Peloponnese states, allowing them to concentrate against the reduced enemy land forces.
So who won at Thermopylai?
The Persians continued with their invasion until stopped elsewhere.
The Greeks lost the naval engagement offshore, which was set up by the Thermopylai defence, so the latter was to no avail. When Leonidas got news of the Persian outflanking of his position through the mountains, he sent the other contingents off to get inside the walls of friendly cities so that they wouldn't be ridden down in open country by the Persian cavalry when they broke through. He kept the Theban contingent as they were suspected of having already gone over to the Persians, and set up a last stand with his 300 Spartan hoplites and 2,000 serf-light infantry to give the dismissed contingents a head start. The Thebans quickly surrendered and the Spartan 2,300 went down to a man. The other contingents took the benefit of this sacrifice and got away safely.
What form of democracy was used by the Greek city states?
Radical/absolute democracy.
This means that all citizens (not every person there, just ones who qualified for citizenship.. another thing all together) got to vote. This is different from American democracy where we vote for candidates who then make decisions on our behalf, which is actually a Republic.
What did the people of Greece's many city-states have in common?
The Greek city-states had many things in common.
They were not forced to believe - they simply believed in them. They spoke the same language. That had a common culture - their love of beauty and competition to name two. Their city-states were located on the same peninsula.
What kinds of religious art did the ancient indias create?
Many of their paintings and sculptures illustrated either hindu and buddhist teachings.
What did the Greeks buy using coins?
Greeks bought things like silks and gold jewellery. Most of the time they grew or raised their own food, so they only needed to buy other things they couldn't get themselves.
Who were the principal Greek gods?
Zeus, Hera, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hades, Poseidon, Hermes, Apollo, and Athena were the principal Olympic gods.
Rome was governed in lots of different ways. The most powerful person was the senate. Plebebians were ordinary people. The slaves had no rights
What temple of Delphi honors which Greek god?
There were several temples in Delhi. The most famous one was Temple of Apollo, which hosted the Pythia, more commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi. Apollo was an oracular god.
Why were masks so important in Greek theatre?
The conventions of the day only allowed three actors with speaking roles to be used. The masks let them change roles with the most simplest and quickest of actions and allowed one part to be played by anyone. The masks were usually caricatures of famous people or extreme emotions e.g. an unnecessarily large smile, so they could also display who/what that character was supposed to be.
