Ancient Greece

Leaders in ancient greece changed every while. Leaders were selected once the previous leader died. All male citizens voted for the new leader. The assembly picked five ephors to enforce laws and collect taxs.

They started to use coinage in the later 7th Century BCE.

To give an answer to this question that would pertain to the whole of Ancient Greece would be an incorrect generalization.

In Sparta, for instance, women were put through vigorous exercises to make them strong for the purpose of bearing strong men, whose sole purpose was to be trained for the military.


In general, however, women would stay at home, raise the children, clean the house, sew, etc while the men were farmers, politicians, soldiers, etc. Both genders were allowed to be priests, depending on the gender of the god in question.

I Greek Architecture they used materials such as Mud-Brick, Adobe, Wood, Marble and Limestone

Ancient Greece wasn't "founded", it just kind of happened and no particular person sat down and wrote up the "Constitution of Ancient Greece."

Rather, it was a collection of independent city-states founded at various times by different people or groups of people, who certainly would not have regarded themselves as "ancient" anything, but rather as the very cutting edge and pinnacle of culture (and in some ways they were right to do so).

Octavian Caesar, but this was only in later years. His original, birth name was Gaius Octavius Thurinus. The name Thurinius was an honorific name given to his father and passed down to the son.

well, the greek gonist. The doctors like hippocrates and Aristotle wrote all their observations that they took and now we still have them, they gave us a big head start!

Tradition states 30. Modern scholars now think zero

The primary role of the Spartan woman was to bear children for the state. The Spartan woman could choose her own husband. A man was allowed to take any woman he wanted to be his wife, but if she did not want him, she was free to fight to prevent him from having her and could kill him if she chose and was able. The Spartan woman told her men as they went to war, husband or son, "Come back carrying your shield or on it".

They are the religion of the ancient Greeks.

The Human Figure

By our term of a weekly count, hardly any people died in the Colosseum. Yes, the Colosseum was used as an execution center, but remember it was an entertainment center. Events did not take place in it constantly. It was a very expensive undertaking to set up a show in the giant arena. The executions were held in connection with some other event, usually a gladiatorial contest and the gladiatorial bouts took place perhaps two or three times a year in celebration of some event or anniversary. Hollywood history would have you believe that Christians were constantly being thrown to the lions during the persecutions, but this simply was not true.

By definition slaves are not paid for their labour. They were given sustenance. As an indication, the state slaves of Athens were given four obols a day (2/3 of a drachma) for their subsistence, doing comparatively well, as that is about all the rowers in the navy got, and a citizen juror got three obols. A warrior on campaign got 1 drachma, plus another drachma for a servant. A drachma was the standard daily rate for a skilled worker. Some slaves were given a sum of money by their owners to carry on small businesses on their behalf. Same in Rome, where it was called a peculum.

I'm not completely sure, but I think it was oligarchy, which is when a few people hold power.

Athens pioneered democratic self-rule, but it was different from today's representative democracy. It was direct democracy where the adult male citizens met in fortnightly assembly and decided on issues of governance and politics - the council carried out its decisions.

Democracy comes from the Greek words meaning 'people power'.

In today's representative democracy elected members of parliament direct governance, and are far less attuned to what their people really want until it comes time for new election promises in order to get re-elected.

ancient greece

What we describe today as a mythology, by which we mean a connected series of fantasies that are traditionally told in a given culture (much like the concept of fairy tales, except that mythology tells a more unified overall story than fairy tales do) was originally a religion. People believed in the pantheon of Greek gods, Zeus and Apollo and Bacchus and Hera and so forth, as actual gods whom they worshipped and prayed to. This religion goes back many thousands of years, and was already an ancient religion at the time it was replaced by the more recent religion of Christianity. There is no guarantee that some future society will not regard Christianity as a mythology (indeed, the late Isaac Asimov has already stated that the bible should be regarded as Jewish mythology).

There were scores of city-states in mainland Greece - some obvious ones are Argos, Athens, Corinth, Delphi, Epidaurus, Eretria, Lamia, Laodicea, Megara, Plataia, Sparta, Tegea, Thebes.

Aegeus killed himself because he thought he lost his son, Theseus. Theseus traveled to Crete to defeat the Minotaur and told his father that if he returned victorious he would have a white sail. However Ariadne cursed Theseus and the gods caused Theseus to forget to raise his white sail. Aegeus saw a ship with a black sail and thinking that his son was dead he threw himself off a cliff.

They believed that the question was more important than the answers because if you question anything. exaple question Einstein's theory or a religion's flaws, you'll be able to find a better logical solution

Two ways the sea influenced early greeks and their societies were to fish or to build boats. The second way was so others sailed across the sea to trade goods with other lands

Stoics

Greeks eat fish and meat cooked in olive oil. They are known for their filo dough and baklava. Another well known food is gyros which is a sandwich with pita bread, grilled lamb, and tzatziki sauce.