Ancient Greece

• Athens' dominance of the Greek world was shattered. It lost its empire and the tribute it exacted therefrom, so its financial superiority and consequently maintain the largest war fleet collapsed. In the short term it went through a period of internal political instability.
• Sparta became the dominant power for three decades until this was broken by Thebes, after which is was not a major player.
• The Greek world suffered great destruction, which allowed Persia to have a dominating say in Greek affairs.
• Macedonia progressively improved its position until it became dominant, with Philip and then his son Alexander becoming Hegemon of Greece. From this platform, the destruction of the Persian Empire was launched, and Hellenisation was extended in the east.
• After Alexander's death most of the Greek and Persian worlds were partitioned between Alexander's generals as Hellenistic kingdoms which spread Greek culture through the Middle East. These kingdoms lasted until absorbed into the expanding Roman Empire in the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCE.

Alexander the Great

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Homer was one of the greatest (blind) story tellers during 1200 B.C, He wrote epics celebrating heroic deeds.

Pericles had guided Athens into a war with the Peloponnesian League which was led by Sparta. He was confident that the walls of Athens and its superior navy, financed by the empire which Athens had created, would prevail.

Two years later Pericles died of a plague which engulfed the Athenians penned up in an unhealthy environment within the city walls. Subsequent populist leaders led the people into risky deviations from his plan, and after another disastrous 25 years of war, Athens surrendered and was stripped of its empire, becoming a second class power.

The sea battle which it was designed to precipitate, having failed, the reason for holding the land pass ceased. The Spartan commander sent his supporting citiy contingents off to seek the protection of friendly city walls, and to give them a clean break, continued to hold the pass with his 300-strong badoguard and 2,000 light infantry. They died in securing the safety of their allies.
The Spartan sacrifice of The Three Hundred held up the Persian advance long enough for the various city-states to coalesce a unified resistance. The Athenian Fleet destroyed the Persian Fleet at Salamis, forcing the Persians to retreat overland, subjected to guerrilla raids until all the armies, under Spartan leadership, joined together to crush the Persians at Plataea.

No, he operated east from Greece to today's Pakistan, south to Egypt. He planned to later go west to take Sicily and Carthage, but died before he could try.

There are about four different seas not oceans around Greece. These seas are, the Aegean Sea, Sea of Crete, Mediterranean Sea, and the Ionian Sea. Visit the link below for an example of a map. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=europe&Rootmap=greece&Mode=b

No! No! No! coffee was introduced into Europe by the Ottoman Turks in the 17th century AD

In ancient times, the blending of the Greek and Eastern cultures that was powerfully effected by Alexander the Great's conquests has come to be known as the Hellenistic Age. This blending dominated the Mediterranean Basin for several hundred years until Rome's conquests ushered in a new cultural age.

The Ancient Greeks have brought really important weapons to us, such as the catapult. They also invented one of the most common used fromat in history, GOVERNMENT! Ancient Greeks are not the people that have created most of the important things in this world, but Ancient Egyptians have. BTW some people could not afford wheat in Greece so they would eat bread, but with barley with it.

When it turned the anti-Persian league which it led into an empire of its own, it directed the war funds it mulcted from the other cities for its own purposes, beautified the city and encouraged cultural, philosophic and scientific practitioners from around the Greek world to practice in Athens, shifting these activities from the Ionian cities where they had flourished previously.

The ancient Greeks only let men whose parents were ALL Greek, no other nationality. Women, children, slaves, and anyone whose parents weren't ALL Greek were NOT alowed to vote (pretty picky people!).

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Both the theological myths and the arts of ancient Greek peoples reveal much about their lives, values, and beliefs. The god-centered myths, for instance, reveal that the Greeks saw themselves as part of a larger drama in which great rewards and great punishments, great evils and great goods, were at play. For its part, Greek artwork reflects both confidence in the human ability to understand and to affect its role in the world and, at the same time, a simple desire to behold, express, and enjoy life's beauty, power, and even mystery.

It depends on the minor god or goddess, there are the six thousand sons and daughters of the Titan Oceanus to count as fresh water goddesses and river gods.

It should be noted that every god or goddess in Greece did not have a symbol or sacred animal. Many of them were personifications of abstract ideas that wouldn't be well represented any other way.

Polytheism. This means many gods, one for each aspect of life. They both had a high god - Romans had Jupiter (a development from Janus - Janus-pater, ie Janus the Father, later corrupted to Jupiter). Greeks had Zeus. The two religions recognised that their gods, even though they had different names, were the same, and gave them due respect. It was not until the advent of Judaism and its offshoots Christianity and Islam that religious differences became significant, claiming supremacy, and war and killings in the name of religion emerged.

At the battle of Salamis in 480 BCE a fleet of southern Greek city states severely defeated the Persian fleet causing it to retire back to Mycale, where it was eliminated the following year.

The Athenian navy formed a significant part of the Greek fleet led by Sparta.

Sparta did not initiate the Persian Wars. Sparta was very conservative about wars, relying on its reputation to avoid wars. It had problems in keeping down a restive serf population and didn't need extra problems if they could be avoided.

The Persian Wars began when the Greek cities of Asia Minor revolted against Persian rulership. Athens and Eretria intervened, and after the rebellion was put down, Persia turned on Eretria and Athens in mainland Greece, for helping the rebellious cities. This attempt failed at the Battle of Marathon and Persia decided that the only way to keep the peace was to bring all the Greek cities into its empire, where it could control them.

Persia bribed some of these cities into compliance, then invaded to subject the rest. A consortium of Greek city-states combined to oppose this invasion, including Sparta and Athens.

Sparta is the Greek city-state best known for having a military society. Known best for the heroic, yet losing fight at Thermopylae of their 300 Spartan warriors under King Leonidas against 100,000+ Persians, while Athens is known for the Acropolis and other monuments, Sparta's only monument is the enduring valor of that battle.

they wore particularly bright colors like red,orange,yellow,and green

They conned the Persians into splitting their fleet, then enticed them into the narrow waters between Salamis and Athens, where they again had to split their fleet and advance through the narrow chanels with exposed flanks. In this, the smaller more manoeuverable Greek ships were able to outmanoeuvre the heavier Persian ships.

For the same reason we have conflict any where else -- humans are imperfect and sinful beings and so don't always get along. There is always somebody trying to take advantage of somebody else.

greek babies often wore nothing at all. but sometimes they wore a cloth diaper. and if it was cold, of course theyd be wrapped up more.