Ancient Greece

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.

Many of their paintings and sculptures illustrated either hindu and buddhist teachings.

Tragedy plays, Comedy plays, and Satyr plays.

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.

Minoans and Mycenaeans

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

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.

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.

The Greeks visited Delphi so they could get advise from the god Apollo.

Property rights. Trial by jury. Prosecution and defence. Punishment by fine, execution or loss of citizenship.

However this is hardly a direct adaption by America from the Greek and Roman systems - these systems fed into European countries, and America adapted them from those European countries which founded and influences its development.

The money they paid to the league funds to secure them from the Persians was used by Athens to fund its fleet, and when peace was arranged with the Persians, Athens continued to collect the money and use it to beautify the city, keep half its people in public employment, and keep a hundred ships at sea collecting the money by force where necessary.

It involved the Greek in a destructive struggle for ascendancy between the Athenian empire, and the Peloponnesian league led by Sparta. It led to the dissolution of the Athenian empire, massive destruction in the Greek world, and solved little, with inter-city warfare continuing on amongst realigned allies afterwards.

they invented the Olympic game :)

The foods of ancient Greece were similar to foods we eat today, but did not include many that have become important parts of modern Greek cooking. For example, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and bananas didn't arrive in Greece until after the discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, because that's where those foods originated. Lemons, oranges, eggplant, and rice also arrived later. But the ancient Greeks enjoyed a varied diet. Vegetables, legumes, and fruit were the mainstay, and fish was a favorite. Hunting brought game to the menu.

It would be helpful if you gave the three peoples you are interested in knowing about, as many peoples dominated Greece over several thousand years.

One answer could be Achaeans, Dorians and Macedonians.

Another could be Hellenes, Romans and Turks,

etc etc.

== == The "Dark Ages" or "Middle Ages" are not unique for their superstitions and mythology. There has yet to be a race of human beings that has not produced or embraced a set of superstitions or fables. While indeed such things helped explain the unknown, it was seldom comforting filling the unknown with mysterious beings that were even more threatening.

Many of these mythologies and superstitions were brought over and adapted from the paganism of the barbarian tribes that over the centuries converted and became the Christians of the Middle Ages. In the face of intolerant Christian theology all ancient religions with their gods became superstitious practices that served demons. Since people believed in demons, it was easy to imagine the demons had taken specific forms and identities with which to taunt and injure the human race. What is remarkable is how often European tales speak of religious objects as means of warding off such creatures, often these were metaphors for how Christianity was more powerful than the old gods and pagan practices. The older mythologies speak of potions and protective words, pagan throwbacks, and thus often people that tried such things were associated with paganism and labeled as witches or warlocks since even good pagan charms must come from the devil. Add to this the frailty of life with sickness, famine, war and death a very close reality. Further, the Middle Ages were riddled with wonder workers, both saints and sinners. While the modern age may scoff at some of the claims, thousands witnessed events such as the raising of the dead, healings, weather shifting and strange victories and defeats. Fledging science was often mixed with superstition involving incantations and special ingredients since the knowledge just was not there to think success could be achieved otherwise.

The modern world is just as susceptible to mythology and superstition. In fact, a case could be made that the modern world is absolutely obsessed with such things, just as much if not more than any other time period in history. Just a hundred years ago the city of Los Angeles, so convinced by the blathering of drifter, awarded the man funding and equipment to make an excavation in what is now downtown LA to find the underground city of the Lizard people. He used up the money and disappeared after a week. Seriously, look it up. Apartment buildings are still constructed without a 13th floor. Presidents of recent memory and Prime Ministers, the same who brought us into the technological age, are known to have consulted astrologists. Our newspapers contain horoscopes, our store fronts feature psychics and people base success and failure on certain personal routines, clothes, words and lucky objects. Our mythology now is featured in comic books and TV shows depicting people with astounding abilities, heavenly bodies and impossible wealth. Many would scoff saying that we know such things are not real, yet if one combines all the surgeries, special devices, drugs and foods, dietary programs, seminars we are looking at billions of dollars and hours spent in the pursuit of our gods and goddesses, not to mention the money that is spent on therapy for failing to live the dream.

enagkalismee keh aspasmee

the stress is at the last syllable of each word.

εναγκαλισμοί και ασπασμοί

corinthian column

If is not really possible to answer this question if it does not specify what the following is. I will assume that it refers to democracy because this is seen the most important political legacy of the Greeks.

The Greeks had a complex mythology. They believed in divine beings, known as gods and goddesses, to explain natural phenomenas such as thunder, lightning, and death. The most poweerfull gods and goddesses were known as Olympians. They lived in Mt. Olympus. There mythology is probaly the best known mythology.

I believe it is the French city of Marseilles.

the first football looked quite like the footballs of today. although the first ball was made of a different material that is heavier than todays footballs it was nearly the same The footballs now are much better in being able to curl as seen in free-kicks

Spartans were a lot more aggressive and war-minded to other city states. Also women were seen as equals more than other city-states as they were allowed to go to school and take on male roles but in other ways they were inferior as they obeyed men like slaves.

The Spartans were a lot more conservative with their religion and everyday life as they would never build buildings of stone only certain temples, otherwise they would build it from wood as to why there is hardly any evidence of Sparta.

The Peloponnesian League led by Sparta against the Athenian empire resulted in the devastation of the Greek world, the defeat of Athens and its reduction to a second rate power, further wars between the Greek city-states in varying alliances, and the opportunity for Macedonia to impose control on the weakened Greek cities.