Ancient Greece

The Greek society was vastly infuenced by this quest for answers. Everyday activies reflected that: in ancient Athens everyone went to the Agora (the main street where people met) to discuss and talk with others.

Pericles did not rule Athens - it was a democracy so the people ruled - attending assemblies every couple of weeks to vote on legislation. Pericles was effectively First Citizen, that is he wielded a lot of influence, but not so much that he had to orchestrate the exile of Thucydides son of Melesias who had organised a political party (first one on record) to oppose him in the assembly. Pericles' influence began in the 450s BCE, and ended with his death in 429 BCE.

In the early stages from 499 BCE when Persia dominated, they were able to use Greek inter-city rivalries and disunity, ease of bribing their leaders, and in the field, the superiority of their cavalry and the fleets, which latter they levied from Phoenecia, Egypt and the Ionian Greeks as well.

As the Greeks gained more cohesion and the will to combine for their common defence, they were able to consistently defeat the Persians on sea and land, until Persia agreed to peace in 449 BCE.

what ended the greek's golden age was the pellopenesian war. wich caused diseases.

Many important decisions were made(to start a campaign,make alliences etc) after consultation with the Oracle. Wars and conflicts were put on hold for the duration festivities dedicated to gods. In everyday life, people should respect the gods as there was the fear of divine retribution (Nemesis).

The Archaic period is also referred to as the dark ages because we have little to no written record of that time period. The following Classical period is when Greece peaked artistically and intellectually.

Philip II of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia took over the hegemony of a united Greece.

There were several altars to Dionysus throughout Greece. I assume you mean the altar at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens. It was in the center of the Orchestra Circle to begin with and then was moved to the downstage edge of the Orchestra during the Hellenistic Period.

Alexander is famous as an immensely brave, adventurous, and decisive leader. It is said that his character was so inspiring and attractive that men were quick to commit to his goals and proud to put their fate in his hands. He had natural charisma and the courage to confront any danger he asked his followers to stand up to.

He was said to be physically impressive - quite short but notably handsome and very well proportioned. He was intelligent, a cunning and inventive military tactician, and had unshakeable self confidence. He was charming but ruthless in pursuing his aims. He could also be compassionate and capable of notable acts of mercy.

Alexander had his faults, especially as his health weakened. However, at his peak he was an unmatched leader of men, held in god like status by those who helped him conquer and rule much of the known world at that time. His accomplishments stand above and beyond history's other great leaders, people like Napoleon, Caesar, Churchill, Nelson, and Khan. His methods are studied by military strategists to this day and it is unlikely a single person will ever be as influential in the field of global combat again.

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Because humans have a natural instinct to charge or blame others for there failures or bad luck. When we fail to do something according to demand, we charge someone for one or more of possible many reasons. When we fail to achieve the desired goal and we strongly believe that we had the ability to achieve it. Here we charge luck for this. This is life and it is quite natural. When we are totally unknown about the cause for the good or bad, that happens to us, we start finding something to charge or blame for this. Here starts a myth.

Phrynicus, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

In order to vote in Ancient Greece ALL of the following had to be true: 1. You had to be Male 2. Both of your parents had to be Greek Citizens 3. You had to be a landowner 4. You had to be an adult. Therefore the following people could not vote: children, women, slaves, and landless men. In reality very few citizens could actually vote in Ancient Greece.

Hippocrates was the first physician to treat diseases as the result of living habits rather than a punishment by the gods. He made medicine a profession. It is believed he was born around the year 460 BCE to Heraclides (a physician) and Praxitela, in the island of Cos, Greece. He died around the year of 370 BCE in Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.

To explain history, ritual, nature, and natural phenomena.

• The abacus is basically the worlds first mechanical calculator, and is considered a forefather of the modern computer.
• Originally the abacus dates back to between 2,700 and 2,400 BCE (over 4,000 years ago) and was developed in Sumeria. It is actually a calculating aid and not an automatic device.
• Originally it may have been used by storekeeper, traders and government officials who needed to perform basic calculations.
• The system used a number of pebbles (or beads) placed in columns on a board or attached to a string. Each column represented a multiple of 10; to to produce the number 634 you would place 6 beads in the 100's column, 3 beads in the 10's column and 4 beads in the 1's column. By adding and deducting beads you could quickly and accurately perform relatively complex calculations without having to try and keep all the numbers in your head while doing so.
• The above example is just that, an example, older civilizations did not use exactly the same counting system that we do today, some used multiples of 5, where as others used 10 basic digits.
• The abacus is still in use to day and is used to teach children the basic of mathematics, some rural areas still rely on them as they are robust, cheap and don't have batteries.

Generally they named the figures after gods and heroes.

The city-states involved in the Peloponnesian War were weakened and they lost alot of soildier, who were also the farmers on which the prosperity and even survivability of the city-states depended. Further inter-city wars followed, and Persia had to impose the'King's Peace to stop the strife spilling over to its empire. This weakening of the cities allowed the rise of Macedon which became dominant ad then turned its attento to Persia, taking over its empire. Th Greek city states provided ongoing manpower for this, and the carpetbaggers who profited. The cities sunk into insignificance and subjection by a rising Rome. The drain of men to wars and to the East led First-century CE historian Plutarch to say thet by then there were not 3,000 warriors in all of Greece.

The influence of Homer upon the ancient civilization of the Greeks is difficult to overstate, as it was so profound and widespread. Fundamentally, it may be said that Greek values, Greek history, Greek theology (and even particular religious practices), as well as the basic love of Greeks for storytelling as a teaching and an entertainment device were all derived from the Homeric epics.

While there were nearly two thousand Greek states and several Greek colonies through out the ancient world, there was a list of major Greek city-states which included; Athens, Argos, Chalcis, Corinth, Eritrea, Epirus, Macedonia, Massalia, Sparta, Syracuse, and Thebes.

Athens used the power of its empire to intervene in the affairs of the southern Greek cities in the Peloponnesian Peninsula and their colonies. These incursions were principally in Corcyra and Potidaea and finally its trade rival Megara which Athens set out to bankrupt. The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, of which Megara was a member, demanded that Athens cease this; Athens refused and war broke out.

Silver, foodstuffs, manufactured goods, artworks.

They both were the first two cultures to be developed in Greece.

(Mycenaeans were first because the only spoke greek.)