Ancient Greece

The Athenians had a rich cultural and intellectual heritage, marked by advances in philosophy, democracy, and the arts. They developed a system of direct democracy, allowing citizens to participate in decision-making. Additionally, Athens was known for its impressive architectural achievements, including the Parthenon, and for being the home of influential philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Their contributions laid the groundwork for Western civilization and continue to influence contemporary thought and governance.

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A Greek street had lots of rubbish on the streets because people threw it out of the windows. The slaves then had to pick it all up. I don't know where the slaves then put that rubbish though....

They threw the rubbish onto the streets because the houses main window was facing the courtyard and the courtyard usually had lots of greenery in it.

The street usually had a market on it too. Selling various things like fruit, veg, bread and cheese.

It's the same as the new Greek alphabet, plus three letters the "digamma" the "koppa" and the "sampi" letters.

* Greek Dark Ages (c.1100-c.750 BC) * Archaic period (c.750-c.480 BC) * Classical period (c.500-323 BC) * Hellenistic period (323-146 BC)

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The first major Greek civilization was the Cycladic civ, 3500/3000 BC. It was followed by Minoan civ, then by Mycenaean civ, the Archaic period and the classical period.

There were minor civs before that (pelasgians, proto-greeks).

The sea influnced them to live a more "blue" life. Looking in to the sea , It spirituality tells almost like a secrect code to most people. Anceint Greeks back then would fish out in the sea/

Generally they weren't painted the different colours were created using differernt firing techniques, this created either the black or orange colouring Generally they weren't painted the different colours were created using differernt firing techniques, this created either the black or orange colouring

The Romans did not hate the Greeks, far from it. The Roman elites looked up to the Greeks. Their education was both in Latin and Greek and they were fluent in Greek. The highest stage in their education was a stay in Greece to study Greek philosophy. The earliest educators in Rome were Greeks. In Rome there were Greek libraries as well as Latin ones. The Romans adopted some Greek gods and linked their gods to the Greek ones. They also absorbed much of Greek mythology. Roman architecture and sculpture were based on Greek models, hence the term Greco-Roman art, and Greek artists were highly praised in Rome.

No women were not allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics , started in Athens by the Greeks.

No women were not allowed to take part in the ancient Olympics , started in Athens by the Greeks.

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Newabortion006 "A soldier was a hero if he came back from battle with his shield. If he was alive, it meant he was victorious. If he died and was carried back upon his shield, he was a hero for having fought courageously. If he came back without his shield, however, it meant that he must have fled the battle, and he would be shunned by Spartan society."

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• Panhellenic Festivals
  • Olympic Games
  • Pythian Games
  • Isthmian Games
  • Nemean Games
• Athenian and Attic Festivals
  • Hekatombaion
    • 12 - Kronia
    • 16 - Synoikia
    • 28 - Panathenea
  • Metageitnion
    • 15,16,17,18 - Eleusina
  • Boedromion
    • 5 - Genesia
    • 12 - Democratia
    • 17 or 18 - Epidauria
  • Pyanopsion
    • 6 - Proerosia
    • 7 - Pyanopsia
    • 8 - Theseia
    • 8 - Oschophoria
    • 9 - Stenia
    • 11,12,13 - Thesmophoria
    • 19,20,21 or 26,27,28 - Apaturia
    • 30 - Apaturia
  • Maimakterion
    • ? - Pompaia
  • Poseideon (Ποσῐδηϊών)
    • 8 - Posidea (Ποσῐδεῖα)
    • 26 - Haloa
  • Gamelion
    • 12,13,14,15 - Lenea
    • 27 - Theogamia
  • Anthesterion
    • 11,12,13 - Anthesteria
    • 23 - Diasia
  • Elaphebolion
    • 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 - Great Dionysia
    • 17 - Pandia
  • Mounichion
    • 16 - Munichia
    • 19 - Olympeia
  • Thargelion
    • 7 - Thargelia
    • 19 - Bendideia
    • 24 - Callynteria
    • 25 - Plynteria
  • Skirophorion
    • 3 - Arrephoria
    • 12 - Scira
    • 14 - Bouphonia
• Other Festivals
  • Asclepieia
  • Gymnopaidiai
  • Carnea
  • Heraea
  • Daidala
  • Eleutheria
  • Lyycaea
  • Hyancinthia

Protect the Greek city-states around the Aegean Sea from Persian rule.

They built them when they originally began to ocupy the area of the eastern Mediterranean three thousand years ago. At first they were built of wood, but in the mid 1st Millennium BCE they switched to stone. These stone temples were built in the Greek cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas thereafter over the next millennium.

I would say the Mediterranean Sea, because you could easily travel anywhere in the known world on it back then, and both Rome and Greece were world powers. It also served as a huge trade route.

YES, Greece was certainly under a Democracy in 405BC. At this time the Pelopannesian War [431 - 404BC] was coming to an end, and Athens [Greece] suffered a defeat in the battle of Aegospotami against Lysander [Sparta]. Also by this time the Spartan King Pausanias had laid seige to Athens and Lysander's fleet had set up a blockade at Piraeus. This effectively closed the grain route to Athens, and it's population began to starve. 404BC Athens capitulates and is forced to negotiate the terms of its surrender to Sparta. Then began the year of Anarchy or The Rule of the 30 Tyrants.

to explain things like lightning and the season

The Greeks believed that people could use their minds and reason to choose and run good governments.

The same way you know about your god(s), if any.

Most all cultures and civilizations had writings and artifacts, along with oral stories, that inform us today about their culture and beliefs.

The Roman Empire experienced peace and prosperity.

the geography of Greece made more independent communities (city states) which helped foster participation in political affairs which gave them their own laws and military power.

They moved into Europe as nomands, looting the peoples who had previously settled there. When there was nothing left to loot they had to settle down and grow their own food and wealth. The established city-statesbuilt around a fortress, then a city. These independent city-states became powerful in their own right, and often combined into leagues for mutual defence.

They also spread their surplus populations around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, eatablishing about 2000 city-states, which might have been all-powerful in the region but for their habitual warring amongst each other, which so weakened them that they presented an easy target for first Macedonia, and then later Rome.

The 3 basic styles are Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian, with two other variants called the Tuscan (plainer Doric) and the Composite (stylized Corinthian) -- classifications added in the 16th century, rather than separate styles.