Ancient Greece

To stop the Persian land advance in order to force them into a sea battle in narrow waters in the nearby strait.

The Persian navy threatened the Greek cities, and these cities kept their armies at home to counter the threat. By defeating the Persian navy the Greeks hoped to end this amphibious threat and so allow their city armies to concentrate against the Persian army, rather than the cities being picked off one by one.

The Persian navy also protected the supply fleet on which it's army depended as a poor country like Greece could not support it.

The naval battle failed, so the Thermoplyae blocking position was to no avail. However a second naval battle at Salamis destroyed the Persian naval power. With the supply lines now exposed, and the Greek countryside unable to provide food during the upcoming winter, half the Persian army was sent home. With the amphibious threat gone, the following year (479 BCE) the Greek cities concentrated their armies at Plataia and defeated the remaining half of the Persian army and its Greek allies.

First he inspired people he conquered by slowly incouraging them to at least look upon what he was going to say and building temples in there city of roman gods, but he did this in a kind way, and he wanted to make peace with them. Second with all this land he conquered he had nobody to run it so he invited the people to become citizens.

P.S. The person who said "He didn't" abviously didnt take english class, and didnt care, GOOD LUCK WITH WHAT EVER YOUR DOING!

Monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, democracy, radical democracy.

mt. Olympus

According to Aristotle:

Monarchy (Rule by One) which degraded to Tyranny (Rule by an absolute ruler)

Aristocracy (Rule by the Best) which degraded to Oligarchy(Rule by the Few)

Democracy (People Power) which degraded to Ochlocracy (Mob Power).

The Golden Age of Greece was a period in which unique and admirable artistic, scientific, political, and other cultural achievements took place throughout the Greek world. While Greek city-states differed in character and quality, a similar spirit of exploration and desire for greatness infused the civilization during its Golden Period. Several of the Greek city-states were most successful in carrying through on these counts; for instance, there were in Athens unparalleled appearances of artists and philosophers and statesmen who left "golden" legacies that still influence the world today.

They fought and held the pass until outflanked .

Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, so a lot of Greeks worshipped her

Hellas

The first recorded civilization in Crete are the Minoans around 2000 B.C.E.. Their alphabet would serve as the basis for Mycenaean Greek language which is the forerunner to all future European language.

The ancient people of Crete were not, in fact, called Cretians, nor do I believe they are referred to as such today. The ancient peoples of Crete were known as the Minoans, after Minos, perhaps the most well-known king of Crete.

Minos is notable for his part in the myth of the Minotaur, or Bull of Minos. According to the legend, as a result of his displeasing the gods (specifically, Poseidon), his wife became enamored with a beautiful white bull, with which she conceived the Minotaur. Not one to be undermined so easily, Minos had a labyrinth built around his wife's half-human progeny, to which he would send 10 Athenian men and women every few years.

Minos could well have been a title, like Caesar beacame, as their are many different Minos mentioned throughout history.

Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Poseidon

Formal Greek Theater may have arose out of oral traditional stories and most surviving Greek plays reference elements of Greek myths and the mythical gods. Nearly all Greek plays we read today came out of the city-state of Athens, which was rich enough to support many of the arts. Plays were prepared for, and performed during competition festivals, and citizens were selected to play in the Chorus as part of their civic duty. It is thought that plays were judged by the priests. Most Greek plays adhere to the three-actor rule, meaning each of the three actors played multiple parts which were differentiated by different masks and presumably by voice. Greeks wrote and performed Comedy, Tragedy, and Saytr plays which were ridiculous farces. Plays were all sung, and vase paintings indicate that there was also dance.

Topics covered by different Greek plays varied by the type of play. For example, Euripides, a tragic playwright wrote Medea, a play in which a jealous wife kills her own children to get revenge on her cheating husband. Sophoces wrote the Oedipus trilogy which concerned the legend of Oedipus, a man who tried to defy the gods and was punished with the horrifying truth that he had married his own mother. Aristophanes on the other hand, wrote comedy, such as Lysistrata, a play in which the women of a city withold sex from their husbands until the husbands end their war with another city.

The Classical Period of Athens is referred to as the Golden Age because of the quality and quantity of art and literature that was produced. Pericles encouraged tradesmen, craftsman and artists to create large, beautiful monuments throughout Athens.

They were places to house the gods and conduct ceremonies and make offerings to them.

Olive oil, goat cheese, fish, bread, and wine were their main foods.

They could get land and money(gold or jewlrey) But I'm not so sure, so check please.

Greek culture was not spread by the Peloponnesian War. That war involved the already-spread Greek world which existed from Spain through the Mediterranean to Asia Minor and the Black Sea. The aftermath of the war left the Greek world badly weakened, not strengthened. And it opened the way for the re-mergenc of Persia as a major player, imposing the King's peace to stabilise the eastern Mediterranean, and the emergence of Maedonia as another major player, but that was over half a century later.

Different peoples had different architecture - eg the Egyptians based theirs on a n original pillar of bound papyrus stalks etc etc.

With the Greek peoples there were three main styles - Corinthian, Ionic and Dorian (those who took over the Peloponnesian Peninsula). Being plain people the Dorians produced a plain column, without the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian and the ram's horns of the Ionian columns.

The modern era (including the Enlightenment and Age of reason) and thinkers such as Bacon and Hobbes tried to solve the issues of western civilization through the use of human reason and logic.

Ancient Greece was split into several cities, the main ones being Athens and Sparta. Each city had it's own government. In Athens for the first hundred years it was ruled by a king but soon the Athenians overthrew the kings and created democracy. The leading political figure was Pericles. The time during the democracy was called the golden age of Athens. Soon it's rival Sparta attacked and defeated Athens thus ending this age. the ancient Greeks truly believed in their gods. They had over 20 gods, the king of these gods being Zeus.

The main Greek playwrights whose work has come down to us are the tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedian Aristophanes.

Some fragments, and almost one complete play, of Menander also survive.