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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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What were the actions that the ancient Greeks were likely to take when starting a new colony?
First the mother city would select the colonists - mainly the surplus sons of landowners who could never become farmers and warriors because the family farm was usually too small to subdivide -they posed a social threat as landless men who would become troublemakers. To these would be added existing social and political troublemakers, and a leader selected to lead the expedition and establish the new city and its government.
The colonists would then be loaded onto a ship and dispatched to a new area outside mainland Greece to acquire - often by force -a new city site and land to support it. This daughter city was subsequently expected to pay deference to the mother city, send annual offerings and if close enough, support the mother city in wars. This in itself became the source of future disputes.
How did the ancient greek have an influence on the world?
They gave us the foundation for our government were the first democracy. They were the foundation for the alphabet-our alphabet came from the two first letters of the Greek alphabet-Alpha and Beta.
One of their doctors (who used to be a mathematician) named Hippocrates was the first person to believe that sickness came from natural causes and not the gods. By doing this he started the discovery of medicine and taught people how to recognise symptoms of illness.
They held the first ever Olympic games.
Yes, and many were African Americans. Because Africans were stronger and many were immune to European diseases, they were enslaved and forced to work as field hands, farmers, and in homes as servants.
Because the Africans didn't know the land, and were distinct from the colonists in appearance, they couldn't easily escape slavery. Native Americans knew the land, and if captured, they could run easily get away given the chance.
When did the ancient Greece military start?
Well, the Mycenaeans conquered Creete around 1400 BC. They spoke Greek and came from a city in what we now call Greece, so does that count?
What were some of the finest buildings in ancient Greece?
Some of the finest buildings in ancient Greece were the Parthenon, the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the temple of Hera in Olympia, the temple of Artemis, the temple of Posideon at Sounion, the Erechtheum, and the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
Yes, the ancient greeks often attributed natural disasters and disease to ill omens and signs that the suffering individual had displeased the gods. This was probably due to their polytheistic and ritualistic religon, wherein it was generally accepted:
- the gods spoke through omens and oracles.
- sending offerings and prayers to the gods earnt their favour.
- neglect of these offerings would provoke natural disaster.
Ancient Greek mythology features alot of this, see the story of Tiresias. The plague in Athens in 448BC according to plutarch was also attributed to the wrath of the gods.
There is a difference, though, between plague and disease and common illnesses. Illness was one of the maladies inside Pandora's Box. It was released when she opened the box.
Why did the mycenaean civilization collapse?
By the late thirteenth century B.C., Mycenaean Greece was showing signs of serious trouble. Mycenaean states fought one another while major earthquakes caused widespread damage. In the twelfth century B.C., new waves of Greek-speaking invaders moved into Greece from the north. By 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization had collapsed.
mycenaen is knowend for how there German king conqured the Greeks and named his people the mycenaens and his kind where also knowned for there ruins at mycenae they found a golden mask outside the mycenaen palace wall
How did Dorian invasion help spread Greek culture?
It populated the Peloponnese, then over-populated it, and so the Dorian city-states sent out colonies around the Mediterranean littoral.
What are some ancient greek words still used today?
like academy is still used today as a learning place
What contributions did the Greeks leave behind for modern society?
The most important legacy Greece ever gave us was probably democracy. However, Greece should not get that much credit because at the time democracy was formed, Greece was made up of independent city-states. The city-state (Athens today is a regular city) of Athens should get the credit of creating democracy.
What was important about the landscape in ancient Greece?
The location of ancient Greece was important for its cultural development and success as a civilization. Being surrounded on three sides by water while being comprised of many islands, as well, Greek cities were able to engage easily in seaborne trade. They were close enough to older, more established cultures (such as Persia) to have trade-success while being far enough to be secure from surprise attacks. Their skill in sea-faring in fact proved to be the vital element in Greek survival for centuries.
Who built one of the largest empires in the Ancient world in Ancient Greece?
Athens, after becoming the leader of the Delian League and subverting it, became the ruler of an empire spanning the Aegean.
How much did food cost in ancient Greece?
A loaf of bread would be 1 obol (a type of coin in ancient greek times). A lamb would be 8 drechmas (another type of coin in ancient greek). A pork steak would be around 1 drachmas and a gallon of olive oil would be 5 drachmas.
How did citizenship in ancient Greece differ from citizenship in modern countries?
The requirements of the citizenship in ancient Greece was that men under the age of 18 would not be a citizen. In 451 B.C the rules of citizenship became stricter. Men could become citizens only if their father and mother's father were citizens. Slaves could not vote or choose their own jobs. Women that were married or unmarried could not own land. Out of 300,000 inhabitants of Tyrants only 45,000 could become citizens
What does the word marathon mean in ancient Greece?
The Athens, vastly outnumbered, desperately needed the help of Sparta's military base to help fend off the attack. Time was short, so the Athenian generals send Tippets (or Philippe's a professional runner to Sparta to ask for help. The 140 mile course was very mountainous and rugged. Tippets ran the course in about 36 hours. Sparta agreed to help but said they would not take the field until the moon was full due to religious laws. This would leave the Athenians alone to fight the Persian Army. Deputes ran back to Athens (another 140 miles!) with the disappointing news. Immediately, the small Athenian Army (including Tippet's marched to the plains of Marathon to prepare for battle.
The Battle of Marathon
The Athenian Army was outnumbered 4 to 1 but they launched a sup-rise offensive thrust which at the time appeared suicidal. But by day's end, 6400 Persian bodies lay dead on the field while only 192 Athenians had been killed. The surviving Persians fled to sea and headed south to Athens where they hoped to attack the city before the Greek Army could reassembly there.
Dipody's was again called upon to run to Athens (26 miles away) to carry the news of the victory and the warning about the approaching Persian ships. Despite his fatigue after his recent run to Sparta and back and having fought all morning in heavy armor, Tippets rose to the challenge. Pushing himself past normal limits of human endurance, the reached Athens in perhaps 3 hours, deliver his message and then died shortly thereafter from exhaustion.
Sparta and the other Greek polios eventually came to the aid of Athens and eventually they were able to turn back the Persian attempt to conquer Greece.
Concluding Remarks and Beginning of Olympic Marathon Races
The Greek victory marked one of the decisive events of world history because it kept an Eastern power (the Persian from conquering what is now Europe. The victory gave the Greeks incredible confidence in themselves, their government and their culture.
In the two centuries that followed, the Greek culture spread across much of the known world. It made Europe possible and in affect won for civilization the opportunity to develop its own ecumenic life.
Modern European-based nations such as the United States and Canada can trace their growth straight back through an unbroken chain of Western historical events back to the Victory at Marathon. Centuries later, the modern Olympic Games introduced a "marathon" race of (40,000 meters or 24.85 miles). The winner was Spiriting Louis, a Greek postal worker from village of Maris and veteran of several long military marches , His time was 2 hours, 58 minutes, 50 seconds for the 40 kilometer distance (average pace of 7:11 minutes per mile). At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the marathon distance was changed to 26 miles to cover the ground from Windsor Castle-to White City stadium, with 385 yards added on so the race could finish in front of King Edward Vi's royal box. After 16 years of extremely heated discussion, this 26.2 mile distance was established at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as the official marathon distance. The Panegyric War
The Persian Empire over the years expanded to the Meditation Sea. In the process some Greek settlements were conquered. Iona was one such settlement. After many years, they tried to revolt against the Persians but the uprising was immediately squashed by the powerful Persian Army. By the year 490 BC the Persian Army was ready to expand their territory and move into Europe. They landed a large force just outside of Athens on the plains of Marathon and prepared for attack
Did Ancient greek culture lay a foundation for western civilization for art?
Too many areas to mention
First of All, language, latin is based off of Eutruscian and Greek, and Latin is the Root of Italian, French, parts of English, Spanish, Portuguese and more laguagues responsible for Western thinking.
Art, and Architecture ancient Greek Art is still used, statues, marble and painting in tradition styles still exist as well as pottery, mosaics, and even the idea of the Artisic Building or Architecture still plays a huge role in our society, giving us many styles of building like the state and federal capitols, anything with an exposed column comes from Ancient Greece.
Olympics and Sports the ancient Greeks pride themselves in Sports, they are the founders of the ancient Olympics, we honor the nation every 2/4years with them leading the Opening Ceremonies, and the Greek National anthem is sung, and the Olympic Anthem is written and sung in Greek (for the ancient Olympics) and French (to commemorate the founding ethinicity of the modern Olympic Games) By they way, Gymnasium, is a greek word meaning place of nudity...no lie.
philosophy, mathematics, enigineering
the Greeks deveoloped complex hypothesis regarding math and physics, and even engineering. Such examples are the introduction of Pi...for circles, the PAthagorian Theorum, the rationalization of zero, and the concept of infinant numbers and and fractions. Greeks built four of the 7 wonders of th world, the Temple of Artimis, the Collosus at Rhoodes, the Great mossoleum, the Pharos Lighthouse (built in Egypt but designed by Greeks during the Greek ownership of Egypt) and the Temple of Zeus and the Great Library of Alexandria. Only the Pyramids and Hanging Gardens of Babylon were not constructed by the Greeks.
Greeks developed great strides in Philosophical thinking and psychology, basing many studies off of parent-child relationships. We get terms of philosophy from Ancient Greece like Utopia (which is Greek for no place basically it doesnt exist).
Legends were passed even into the Middle Ages and the Rennaisance, Greek gods and goddesses stories and legends were portreyed as theatre evens for royalty during the Tudor era and have survived to be included in Shakespeare's plays (MidSummer Night's Dream) and there are tons of other mytholical references in the plays
Theatre and Educations were introduced by Greece, the Greeks developed the Grecian theatre which laid the croundwork for the Colliseum. Theatres and dramas were a major step up from story telling, rather it became story showing. Education was highly prized in Greece, the Greeks built workshops, and sponsored inventors to build wonderful machines, like toilets, heated pools, and even war machines.
Politics were influenced by the Greeks, democracy, republics were all ancient forms of Greek city-state politics and eventually adopted by Rome, Europe, America and all over the world.
Agriculture
Certain foods were first made and produced in Greece, including Wine, Olive oil, octopus, and certain other types of fish, as well as certain agricultural styles like how to till the land, the idea of crop rotation.
The Greeks gave us sciences like Astronomy, Physics, and Medicine there is evidence that Greek scientists preformed ancient sureries for teeth, heads, arms and legs, as well asponder their existence and hypothesises in the universe.
What is the symbol for greek god atlas?
atlas is a titan, the brother of Prometheus and Pandora's husband. he has fought the gods in the war titans vs. gods. between his brothers he had the most strength. Zeus was scared that he might go for his place, so punished him by making him carry the world/sky on his shoulders.
What are the names of the greek temples?
There were thousands of them spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
They were called after the god who was represented there - eg The Parthenon at Athens, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Temple of Hera at Paestum.
How often was Ancient Greek Olympics?
Every four years. The four year period between games was an Olympiad.
What are 5 ancient greek values?
Individualism, rationalism, justice, beauty, and the pursuit of excellence.
Okay, the boundaries of Ancient Greece are Drama a city right below Bulgaria (it has a little dash thing above the first a. So it would probably be prononced as Dr-Ah-ma) to Crete a island right below Greece.
How did ancient Greeks influence modern law?
I would certainly believe that the most influential ancient law on the modern private law (law of contracts, especially) is roman law.
Roman law was mostly common law, but the decisions of the roman "judges" (praetors, etc.) were compiled in the eraly middle ages by scholars to form the pandects, which in turn formed a part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis, a collection of historic legal rules to be collected by order of Justinian I.
These rules then, on some way or another, found their way to the modern European and English law.
It must, however, be noted that there doesn't seem to be one single "red line" from Rome to modern law. Au contraire, there were various attempts to give up roman law in favor of natural law, most clearly in the "Preussisches Allgmeines Landrecht" (ALR, General state law for the Prussian states).
Nevertheless, Roman law did have a "comeback" and ended up forming part of many of the modern codifications and also of most western common law rules.
The influence of Roman law can still be seen in the usage of sentences (and also the underlying principles) such as "clausula rebus sic stantibus", "quae ad agendum temporalia", "falsa demonstratio non nocet" and many more.
(For an explanation of these sentences and many more visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Latin_legal_phrases)
In public law, the law and philosophy of Greece was of much influence. The principles formed by greek scholars and philosophers came into modern public law through enlightenment, followed by the French Revolution and the US declaration of indepenence, the last of which then led to the U.S. Constitution.
Common Law is 'law that had been handed down since time immemorial' These laws such as Murder (not a Statute aw in Australia and many other parts of the B.C.) and Theft can be traced back to many civilizations including the Australian Aboriginals of 40,000 years ago. Moderns Laws are basically derived from the French legal system. British, Australian and American Laws are rooted here. France was where all 'the best' legal scholars trained until the 1800s. The Napoleonic Code is still taught at many institutions by that name and the Code referred to by others. Confusion reigns with many legal terms being thought to be Latin. THese terms are actually French. Dieu et Mon Droit (Court motto of U.K. B.C. Aust etc) is French for God is my Right, the Police motto of Tenez Le Droit (Uphold the Right) is french, Corpus Delecti, Subpeona, Affidavit and so on. This is why legal terms are French and medical terms (teachings from italy) are in Latin. Whilst I was Studying law in Australia and later whilst in law enforcement (especially prosecutions) I was surprised at the French influence. The Greek and later Roman influence is more in our Court systems of judge and jury (and of course medicine, philosophy and democracy). Although the French (then Gaul) were influence by these cultures, they were also influenced very heavily by the Ten Commandments which (interestingly) in many countries have written their laws in much the same order.
