Ancient 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.)

Greek philosophy spread after being conquered by the Romans, and then the Romans spread the "improved" Greek ideas around their territory. Sometimes Roman philosophers agreed with the Greeks thoughts, and sometimes they highly disagreed.

there were people at the back telling them what they were sayn

They did that through entasis, creating an optical illusion. Normally the columns would seem to become narrower higher up when you were looking up at them. Entasis, a little bulging out in the middle of the column segments made the column appear straight and of uniform width.

classical (apex)

In Greek theatre the actors were all amateurs and non professional also they were all men.

There isn't much talk of acting styles so far. But from what I can gather they used choral work rather than dramatic because of the amphitheatres being so big they had to make sure everyone could at least hear if they could seen. (Amphitheatres normally had about 15,000 people in at a time)

The answer is that they just pooped

The marketplace of ancient Greece was called agora/ αγορά.

Well yes, kinda. There is no law that requires medical student to take the oath upon graduation, Although About 98% of American med. student take an oath of some form. In contrast only about 50% of British students do.

non actually, the 8th century BC didn't even have people there, if your meaning the 8th millennium BC life just started

They were a Greek people who settled in the central Asia Minor coast, the Islands of the Aegean Sea and Attica.

Herodotus is the father of history which formulated the scientific ways of writing history. He was considered as this because of his big contribution in history. Herodotus wrote an account of the Persian Wars. His account was one of the first factual accounts of a past event. Herodotus was also the first historian of the western world.