Ancient Greece

The physical features of Greece affected its city-states immensly. People who came to live and build the city-states worked around the physical features. The main affect was protection. It was all about war and protection those days.

Homer was a famous poet and philosopher who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. Both stores involved the Trojan War.

They used wood for the walls, flooring and for the door. sand was also importantthey would use it for the bottom level for their houses. They would also use stone for their sidewalks.

They probably developed because of how isolated each community was because of the mountains in Greece.

they used their letters. Alpha was 1, Beta was 2, Gamma was 3, et cetera

You're lying. I betcha don't even know Greek, do ya? Alpha isn't one. Beta isn't two. Gamma isn't 3. You're not even spelling it right with your American accents and letters. Just go to a Greek school, like I did, or buy a Rosetta Stone if you're that intrested.

It's just like Jesus being really important to Christians, and Buddha being very important to Asians. Religion and Culture. They have made themselves something to believe in and worship. The stories they have made up are phenomenal.

The Greek city-states of mainland Greece sent out their surplus populations to fend for themselves by establishing new cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas - a couple of thousand cities, ranging from such city-states as Massilia (today's Marseilles in France), Syracuse in Sicily, Neapolis (New City, today's Naples in Italy), to Tripolis (Three Cities, today's Tripoli in Libya), to Miletus in Asia Minor and Tanais in southern Russia.

The times known to us by record list four occasions:

In the seventh century the old temple was destroyed by a flood.

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by His Name To Oblivion *(Herostratus)*.

The temple was restored after Alexander's death, in 323 BC. This reconstruction was itself destroyed during a raid by the Goths, an East Germanic tribe, in 268, in the time of emperor Gallienus.

In 401, the temple in its last version was finally destroyed by a mob led by St. John Chrysostom, and the stones were used in construction of other buildings.

Nothing. A person can not have something in common with a poli, a city-state. However, Alexander united the polis. Oh, and polis is the plural.

The Athenians would have had a Persian-appointed tyrant to govern them, they would in due course have expelled the tyrant as they had done before, and the Greek city-states would have continued fighting each other as was their custom.

All wars were paused during the olympic games in ancient Greece.

The extremely warm climate ofÊthe summers in Greece forced them to wear very light weight fabrics. The Greek's wore tunics made of linens and whenÊthe weather got cooler they just put a cloak over their tunic.

Ancient Greece believed in a polytheism religion.

Alexander's empire extended to Indus River.

famous greek Plato lived in Greece with the Athens.

The encounter with Maron shows that ancient Greeks held a sacred view of hospitality, it was very important to them. The Odyssey was written by Homer.

Ancient Aegae (Modern Vergina) was the first capital of Macedonia. It was subsequently moved to Pella. Under Roman occupation, the capital was moved to Thessaloniki. When Macedonia was liberated in 1912 from the Ottoman occupation Thessaloniki was retained as the capital.

The landowners were also the members of the army, so the aristocracy had to give them recognition. And to be eligible for both, an 18-year old had to prove to his tribe that he was born a member of the tribe. This combination created citizenship.

I just learned about this today in Theater Arts. Theater was popular in all ancient countries mainly because it provided entertainment for all classes of people, not just the rich ones. Greek plays mostly just provided entertainment, but when civilians started realizing what a profit theater was, actors were started to be held above others. Comedies and tragedies are still exemplified in our movie plots and TV shows today. Greeks had theater mostly for enjoyment, and those who were lower class men could have a job as a performer.

Historians are still trying to understand the techniques the Athenians used to build the Parthenon, but here is a video that describes some of the things that we do know about it.----> HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=MLCW0ZKR4XK

Socrates drank Hemlock under orders from the state for "corrupting the youth of athens". His teachings challenged some of the set ideas in society at that time, and this caused hostility on behalf of the authorities.

becausae that is all that they knew how to grow lol

The ancient Greeks valued sports, both as training for warfare and as a way of honoring the gods. Ancient Greeks also valued:

slavery

music

war

government (Athens)

gods and goddesses

religions

strong state (Sparta)

That's pretty much it.

Ancient Greeks value:

slavery

music

war

government(athens)

gods and goddesses

religions

strong state(sparta) and that's pretty much it

Women in Ancient Greek were considered inferior to men and did not have the same rights. For that reason they were not allowed to participate in the Olympic games.