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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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How did Iliad and Odyssey influence the world?
These stories that homer wrote teached courage ,bravery,and life lessons. The illiad tells about the Trojan horse. The odyssey tells about a guy named Odysseus and after his army gives the the Trojan horse and kills all of those people the sails for 20 years just to try to get back to Greece, because the god Poseidon was mad at him.
Could slaves in ancient Greece write letters?
Yes, Roman slaves were allowed to read and write. In most cases the slave children were educated right along with the master's children. They had to be literate because much of the master's business was entrusted to slaves. In the master's absence the slaves ran his business, kept the accounts, and did the household purchasing.
What area are long term contributions of ancient greek and roman civilizations found in?
government and law
What was ancient Greece money used for?
ancient Greece money is made from gold, silver, copper, and and electrum
What did the poor Greeks eat for breakfast?
The ancient Greeks ate fish, and wheat for breakfast. But if they got thirsty, they drank beer and wine.
What type of democracy was practiced in ancient Greece?
Ancient Greece created the Citizens assembly which was made up of male citizens of Athens who voted on various issues. There was also a council that was responsible for the daily operations of Athens.
What were the geographic challenges in ancient Greece?
A geographic problem to one side is usually a geographic advantage to another.
As the Greek world comprised of city-states situated in the littoral of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Athenian side had an unmistakable superiority in warships, this amphibious threat swung things against the Spartan alliance.
The Spartan allliance's superiority on land was nullified by the walls of Athens and its port, and by its inability to project that land power beyond mainland Greece in the face of a waiting Athenian navy, which was financed by tribute from its empire.
Athens went to war on this basis, but became too adventurous in trying to reach out to Sicily, where it suffered heavy but not fatal losses. Otherwise it worked well enough until Persia provided the funds for the Spartan alliance to field a navy matching the Athenian fleet.
After its navy was defeated, Athens could not collect contributions to build and man another fleet, geography turned against it. Athens, shorn of its empire, became a single beseiged city with no chance of support from its few remaining overseas allies.
Who sat in the front row of a Greek theatre?
Funnily enough the peasants the front row was stinky & unsafe Whilst at the top you had a good view without any blood getting (or coming from) you.
Another view:
The magistrates and other self-important people. This gave the comedy writers the chance to have the actors take the mickey out of them as they sat wedged in the front seats, unable to hide or escape, even when the actors made statements like they had spotted someone from the back sneaking off to get the wife of one of them while he was away from home.
What is the story of the Peloponnesian War?
A 27 year war between Athens and its empire, and Sparta and its allies (known as the Peloponnesian League). Athens lost , was stripped of its empire, and became a second rate power in the Greek world.
In order to get more farmland the greeks?
tn order to get more farmland the geeks had to irrigate their land.
What were the leaders in Alexander the Great's Empire?
When Alexander was alive he was the sole leader and king (greeks never used the title emperor). After the death of Alexander his empire was divided to his generals (mainly : Seleukos, Antigonos,Ptolemaios,Kassandros,Lysimachos)
What is the meaning of the letters on the ancient greek Athena coin?
In Athens, the AΘE stands for ATHEÖN which means the people of Athens in Greek.
Conservative politician Thucydides son of Melesias was orstacised (exiled for 10 years) ending his struggle for political supremacy in Athens with Pericles.
In ancient Greece what were scientists called?
Thales, Hippocritus, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Strabo, Ptolemy, and Galen are the best known scientists of ancient Greece.
How would you describe greek city-state?
In the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Thule was often identified as Iceland.
What is the name of the ancient Greek god of sun?
Originally, the sun god was Helios. Apollo later became the sun god.
So, Helios is the first Greek God of Sun. The Greek god of sun then became Apollo.
the Olympia building was originally built in 1896 and then rebuilt in 1906. then a new brewery was built in 1934
Obviously the idea of 'drama' as human beings producing a performance symbolising something else has been around for almost as long as Homo sapiens or even erectus.
Drama was practised in some form or another in most ancient civillisations. Drama as we know it, performed by actors in 'theatres' was invented by the Greeks. Indeed, drama is a Greek word. The idea of organised drama was taken up by the Romans and thereby spread through the ancient world.
Why did tyranny democracy oligarchy and monarchy lose power in ancient Greece?
It isn't that they lost power, they were replaced by the governments of conquerors. When Rome annexed what we know as Greece in 146 BC, they supplanted any existing governments, with their own. They controlled Greece for so long, there would have been no one alive that could have revived those old systems when Rome finally fell.
How did Greek theatre influence Greek people?
Theatre was part of religious festivals, in which they participated either on the stage or as spectators. Interestingly the farmer-warriors were happy to dance and sing the female parts in the chorus. Each day during the festivals there was a sequence of a trilogy of tragedy, followed by a satyr play and by a comedy. The function of the tragedies was catharsis - cleaning out the spirit - and the void left by this cleansing was recharged with the other two.
Which battle is considered the most glorious defeat in history?
I say the Battle of Hwangsanbeol, the armies of Bakje fought to the death, literally, and inflicted higher casulties on the opposing Silla armies, for Bakje was out numbered 10-1 the silla forces were 50,000 and bakje had 5,000. And on the western side of the country of bakje, the Tang dystanty sent 130,000 men to help Silla destroy bakje, so General Gyebaek leader of the hopeless army, knowing he would lose, inspired his men to make an epic stand. It was one of the few times in history the losing force ever fought to the death
I can also speak of The Battle of Thermopylae. The 300 Spartans under the command of Leonidas fought to the death even when they knew there was no chance of wining against the Persian army.
What is the problem of a king not leaving an heir - Alexander the Great?
His generals divided the empire amongst themselves, forming several separate kingdoms at odds with each other over boundaries.
