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Ancient Greece
The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.
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Who was sent from Athenian commanders at the Battle of Marathon to seek help from the Spartans?
They sent Pheidippedes to run to Sparta to ask them to come (round trip 120 miles, he hallucinated on the way back and died). The Spartans were in the middle of a religious ceremony when he arrived, and said they would come as soon as it was over. When it was, they did the 60 miles to Athens in a day, but missed the battle, marched on to view the dead, came back and congratulated the Athenians and went home. The Athenians also asked the Plataians for help. A small city, it turned out 1,000 to add to the Athenian 9,000, and fought well. Athens always looked after little Plataia's welfare afterwards. Some stories say that Pheidippedes ran to Athens after the battle to let them know that the Athenians had won, so that they wouldn't surrender the city to the Persians. He is said to have gasped out his message to the cities leaders before collapsing and dying. As Pheidippides was dead by the time of the battle of Marathon, he would have had difficulty in running off to bring tidings of the battle. In fact, it was the whole Athenian army which ran the 26 miles over the hills to Athens. They had seen the Persian cavalry being embarked before the battle, and guessed that it was sailing around the peninsula to Athens to gallop up and occupy the city, whose gates would be opened for them by the Hippias faction. The Athenian infantry would then have been locked out, and harrassed from the rear by the Persian infantry. The Athenian infantry got there just in time, forming up in front of the city as the Persian cavalry was disembarking. The Persians, frustrated, and with their infantry force defeated earlier, went home.
Why was the agora important to Athens?
The Agora in Athens was important because it was the center of Athenian democracy. It was a gathering place for the lawmakers and citizens. The architecture of the Agora is also significant. It also had many different kinds of Greek foods.
Who conquered the Greeks in 192 bc?
Phillip II of Macedonia conquered Greece; then when he was killed, his son took over. Alexander the Great expanded his empire from the Nile River to the Indus River and then after his rule of only 12 years the empire was split up into Egypt, Syria, Pergamon and Macedonia, with many city-states independent. city-states went back to being independent.
How did the ancient Greeks prepare for the olympic games?
not sure but im guessing they had to pray or make a sacrification to the messenger god while they were traveling to keep them safe. another answer here from someone else i don't know this guy is right but I'll find out soon.
What are the most important ancient Greek inventions?
gymnastics,water technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The steam engine was invented by Heron, an ancient Greek geometer (mathmatecian who specialized in geometry) and engineer from Alexandria. Dikaiarch of Messina (350-290 BC) a Greek geographer introduces to the map making world the notion of latitude and longitude. There are many other inventions, sech as the water screw by Archimedes, which would move water upward or downward in a corkscrew motion.
What happened during the Ionian Revolt?
The Greek City-states in Asia Minor rebelled against persian rule. The persians put it down over six years, but the Greek mainland city-states of Eretria and Athens intervened, causing Persian attempts at retribution afterwards.
How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians at Marathon?
The Athenian army waited for reinforcement from Sparta, but then they saw the Persian cavalry being embarked on ships they rushed down and defeated the inferior Persian infantry without their cavalry protection.
Then, realisng that the Persian cavalry was being rowed around to attack the city whose gates would be opened by traitors, they ran back 26 miles over the hills to form up in front of the city just as the persia cavalry was being disembarked. The persians went home.
Try doing a Marathon run carrying armour, shield, weapons and wearing sandals.
The Athenians and Plataeans were waiting in the hills around the plain, where the Persian cavalry couldn't get at them, for reinforcements from Sparta. The observed the Persian cavalry being loaded onto ships and rushed down and defeated the inferior unarmoured Persian infantry unprotected by their cavalry.
Why did city-states develop around the Aegean Sea?
Greek nomads, having completely looted the area of mainland Greece, had to settle on the land and farm to get subsistence. The different tribes which took the limited farming areas between the mountains each set up a defensive fortress on a mountain which grew into a city, and so city-states were formed.
Being great breeders, they overpopulated their limited land an sent out the surplus people to seize new land and form new cities for themselves. This was first to the east around the Aegean Sea, but later spread to the west as far as Sicily, Italy, North Africa and Spain, all up about two thousand independent ciy-states.
What events did the women do in the ancient Greek Olympics?
Worked in the house and the farm, supervised the household slaves, bore and reared children, attended women's religious ceremonies.
There were of course other classes of women - courtesans, servants, slaves etc.
Did the ancient Greeks believe in a soul?
Depends what you mean by both terms. In Greek mythology, Hades was the place of the dead. Inside Hades there were three sections. 1. Elysia, where heroes enjoyed a blissful existence (like Heaven). 2. Tartarus, where the truly wicked would suffer and where the Titans were imprisoned by the Olympians (like Hell). 3. Asphodel, an in between place for the majority of humanity, which was unpleasant but not terrible like Tartarus. (like Limbo).
Actuall its more like: Heaven was Elysium. The River Styx and Wall of Erebos where more like limbo. The Fields of Punishment was Purgatory. And of course Tartarus was hell. As you said Asphodel was also like limbo. Now Isle of the Blest is different. There is no relation between it and any of the Christian beliefs. Also the book "The Odyssey" written by the Greek poet Homer mentons heaven and hell. It also mentions the Underworld (which Odysseus travels to) and Mount Olympus.so the anciet Greeks had many different views. Since both terms appear in anciet writtings.
What products were produced in ancient Greece?
There are many industrial products that come from Greece. Some of these products include plastic piping, cosmetics, power stations, pharmaceuticals, and drip irrigation systems.
What are some Ancient Greek Punishments?
For murder, one is sentenced to death. If one has created a serious feud they shall be put on a rope by the neck for one hour so everyone can see the trouble they caused.
Did the Greeks wear clothes to bed?
The ancient Greeks who were higher up in society used to wear things called togas. These were basically sheets wrapped draped round them and then kept in place by a pin. Poorer people would just wear tunics, a sort of dress, with a cord around their waists to stop it from flying up! Hope this helps. :)
How did the early Greeks spread their culture?
Initially, they did so minimally through trade, especially with Crete. More influential was the expansion of the Greek/Macedonia empire through Alexander the Great.
There are a number of reasons as to why Greek culture took so well abroad after being conquered by Alexander.
1) Religion. The conquered people simply adopted Greek gods because these gods were as superior to their own. In their eyes, the gods of Greeks beat their own gods and let the Greeks conquer them. Thus, it stands that the Greek gods are stronger. Once they adopted the religion of the Greeks, the rest of the culture soon followed.
2) Alexander's army was vast and multiethnic. He took in new soldiers as he left old ones behind to rule his conquered cities. The Greeks left behind became the new elite. The conquered elite, finding themselves not on top of the food chain any longer, then adopted the new elite's culture in order to curry favor.
3) It was cool. Alexander's young, hip, and the greatest general around. He's doing something right. Better adopt elements of his culture in order to be one of the cool kids too.
4) Adaptation. In all seriousness, Alexander takes his armies, conquers cities, plants Greek soldiers there, drafts soldiers from newly conquered territories into his Greek armies, rinses and repeats. People were introduced to Greek culture, became used to it, and began to adopt elements of it into their own. Hence, Greek culture was spread everywhere Alexander went.
Can you sit in a greek stadium?
The Ancient Stadium of Olympia had seating made of mud for about 20,000 spectators as well as a special seating area for spectators. Sitting was allowed, though many onlookers stood to get a better view or to cheer for contestants.
What are some ancient Greek words that begin with the letter E?
There are none. the J sound does not exist in Greek.
What is the most important legacy left by the Greeks?
they had medicine back then and we still have it now
The Ancient Greeks were the first people to systematically examine the world to attempt to discover why it worked the way it appared to. Their ideas were so influential that, for two millennia, Western science was influenced almost entirely by Greek ideas. The later Romans, Arabs, and medieval Europeans did little more than enlarge on Greek ideas.
The Greek philosopher Thales (624-546 B.C.) is considered to be the first philosopher, as he was the first man in history to ask questions such as "Of what is the Universe made?", and to answer without introducing gods and demons. In later centuries, when the Greeks made up lists of the "seven wise men", Thales invariably was placed first.
The Lydians (allies of the Greek Spartans) and the Medes (dominated by Cyrus the Persian) had been locked in a five-year war in Asia Minor in 585 B.C. On May 28th, the two armies were preparing for a crucial daytime battle when a solar eclipse occurred, one that is believed to have been predicted by Thales, a Greek mathematician. When the Medes and Lydians observed the eclipse, they ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty. Incidentally, this is the earliest event in human history that we are able to assign an exact date to, due to the eclipse. May more interesting facts at http:/www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/greeksci.html
What clothing did the Ancient Greeks wear?
Children wore cloth around waist, like a skirt or shorts.
Women wore a large piece of linen or wool wrapped and pinned to stay. The dresses went down to their ankles. Long curly hair was often seen. Headbands made of ribbon or metal was very popular.
Men wore tunics: knee length skirts and a shirt made up of wool or linen, which they'd also use as a blanket. Most had bare feet their whole lives but if they needed shoes, they were leather sandals.
The Basic Clothing ItemsThe most common clothing in ancient Greece was the chiton (χιτών). This is what you see in Greek and Roman sculptures (when they are not naked). It was a rectangular piece of clothing (wool or linen) with a hole in the middle for the head. The length was twice the body length (so it covers both the front and the back) and the width was either the width of the shoulders or of the elbows. They also used a zone (ζώνη) (belt).Additionally, the Greeks wore light, loose clothes, as the weather was hot for most of the year. Long pieces of colourful fabric were used to make the Greek clothes. The main item of clothing for men was a tunic, called a chiton, These were big squares of cloth, held in place by pins at the shoulders and a belt round the waist. They were made from wool in the winter or linen in the summer. Women also wore clothing, which was made from big square piece of linen or wool. They used pins in various places to hold it together. Unlike the men's, the dresses always went down to the ankles, the exception to this rule were Spartan women; who were free to wear dresses that showed a little leg or thigh if they wished. The ancient Greeks could buy cloth and clothes in the agora, the marketplace, but that was expensive. The women made many of the clothes and female slaves. Wealthy people had tunics made of colored cloth. The tunics of the poor were plain. In cold weather, cloaks were worn. Most Greeks went barefoot. If they needed shoes, they put on leather sandals or boots. They also did not wear underwear.
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Who is the most famous Greek warrior?
Julius Caesar the Great.
Julius Caesar was a Roman not a Greek.
There are any number of Greek Generals available which could have taken this title. My personal favourite was Miltiades who was a general at the battle of Marathon. He encouraged the Greek Generals to attack the Persians. The Greeks won the battle by slaughtering 6,400 Persians to the Greeks losses of just 192.
Perhaps the most popular these days due in part to the film "300" would be Leonidas, King of Sparta who lead as general of the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae.
He lead the resistance of the combined armies of Greece against Xerxes, the Persian king in 481. According to Herodotus he held back the armies of Xerxes in a small coastal road at thermopylae with 300 Spartiates, 900 Helots and 700 Thespians, plus support teams.
Leonidas and the Spartiates was finally defeated when a traitor informed Xerxes of a mountain pass which enabled his army to surround Leonidas. Leonidas was killed in the battle and the Spartans slaughtered. the only surviving Greeks from the battle were the Thebans who surrendered.
How did Plato contribute to Greek Democracy?
They gave/spread their agriculture when they would leave their home land so others from their outside world could learn about Greek religions.
What is one characteristic of communities in ancient Greece?
Loyalty, because even though they were through many wars the Greeks still stayed _loyal_ to their country.
(correct me if I'm wrong)
