Ancient Greece

Hypnos is the Greek god of sleep. Morpheus is his son, the god of dreams.

Pericles died from the plague.

There were about 2,000 independent city states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with populations varying from a few thousand to 200,000.

A guess would be overall in the vicinity of 8 to 10 million in the 4th Century BCE, well up from only about 700,000 in the 8th Century BCE. But of course it varied over the centuries up and down due to famines, good seasons, war, plagues natural increases over time. However the jump in the figures above showed what prolific breeders they were in an era before the distraction of TV.

Ancient civilizations ended mostly due to war, economic downfall, or the invasion of a more advanced culture. The most influential of all western cultures, the Roman Empire, experienced their downfall due to economic reasons.

The Ancient Greeks usually didn't wear clothes because they believed the body was beautiful. Therefore, they were convinced it was more than OK to show it off. They also created vivid sculptures of fully nude Greek citizens.

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Because the Nile River gave them a water source. Also the desert provided protection because their enemies couldn't survive the journey through the desert without water and the Nile was the only water source by Egypt.


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The Greeks used the term Helen. Greece/Greek came from the Romans who were later conquering Italy and in its south, the Greek cities there. They confused them with a tribe called the Graeci, and thinking them the same people, called them the Great Graeci. From this came the word Greek, while the people we called the Greeks continued Hellene even to modern times - the last king of Greece Constantine II (1964-1972 CE) was still titled King of the Hellenes.

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Rome was after the Greek civilization

There was no ancient Greek empire. Greece (Hellas) was a large number of independent city-states spread from Sicily to the Black Sea, sometimes grouped into mutual-defence leagues. There was a brief-lived Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great (late 4th Century BCE), which on his death split into Hellenistic kingdoms ruled by dynasties established by his generals (Egypt, Syria, Macedon, etc) after his death. These lasted until progressively absorbed into the expanding Roman Empire in the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCE .

The ancient Greeks lived in homes built from brick, clay or mud. Each home was built around a courtyard to give the women a place to spend their time.

They certainly did. It has even been argued that Greek society could not have functioned without slave labour. In Athens more than half of the population were slaves in the Classical period, and it has been argued that citizens simply would not have had the time to participate in democracy if they did not have slaves to look after their businesses for them while they went to assemblies, served as councillors, etc. Thus, strange as it may seem, without slavery democracy may have never happenned!

Meanwhile, in Laconia, the men of Sparta conquered the surrounding country (called Messenia) and enslaved its population (they are referred to as 'Helots'). These Helots acted as Sparta's primary workforce and allowed the citizens to devote themselves to the defence and maintenance of the state. The Helots revolted several times throughout Spartan history and, unusually, were allowed to own property, including slaves of their own!

Greeks learned to plant on hill sides and fish for food.

The ancient Greeks believed that every day, Apollo, the god of the sun, would ride a chariot a across the sky, pulling the sun behind him.

It depended on the different forms of government for different city-states at different times. There was monarchy (heriditary kings), oligarchy (aristocracies), tyranny (compromise governors to control the aristocrats), democracy (the citizens in assembly making the decisions).

Socrates was important in Ancient Greece because he taught people and raised many philosophical questions.

Some of the sports played in Ancient Greece included discus-throwing, wrestling, and long-jumping.

The geography of Greece affected the city-states in a multitude of ways. This list is not exhaustive, but mentions several important ways that the geography affected the City-States:

1) Minimal Land Travel: The Greek Mainland (Thrace, Epirus, Boetia, Attica, and the Peloponnesus) is among the most mountainous and hilly land in all of Europe, making land travel between the city-state minimal. It also directed their efforts away from expanding their influence primarily over land and explains why non-coastal regions of Greece took the longest to develop.

2) Marine Travel and Naval Strength: Most of the city-states were relatively close to the water, especially those found on Crete, Cyprus, the Dodecanese Islands, or Cycladic Islands. Greek city-states favored marine travel which was more reliable and cost-effective than land travel. As a result, many city-states had strong navies as opposed to having strong armies. (Sparta is the one major exception to that rule.)

3) Chronic Disunity: Because of the prevalence of strong navies, the difficulty of land travel, and the presence of many invasion choke-points (the most famous being Thermopylae), the Greek city-states were never completely unified until Alexander the Great conquered them all. (Sparta did defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian War, but only held onto that victory for a very short time. In addition, Sparta never expanded its power into Boetia or over the Cycladic Islands - which would have been the next logical places to expand.)

4) Pastoralism and Fishing: The mountainous terrain made growing crops very difficult. The two crops that the Greeks were able to cultivate were olives and wheat, but wheat was much more difficult to maintain than the olives. This forced Greeks to resort to pastoralism (primarily animal-based agriculture) and they raised goats, sheep, and pigs. As a result, there was a lot of dairy and meat in the Greek diet relative to contemporaneous civilizations (although significantly less than today). In addition, because of the access to the sea, Greek cuisine included vast amounts of shellfish, mollusks, and proper fishes.

Because it made itself the leader of the Greek resistance against the Persian invasions under the kings Darius and later, Xerxes. By winning important land and sea battles against them and finally driving the Persians off and beating them in Asia Minor as well, founding several colonies of their own, they became the major power in ancient Greece.

The army would accept recruits betwen the ages of eighteen and twenty-five.

The majority of ancient Greece was a mountainous region not suitable for economies based on large-scale agriculture. (Note that Spartan society in Peloponnesus was an exception to this generalization and was based on a strong agricultural economy.) However, ancient Greece had abundant coastline in the Mediterranean that made it an ideal center for a trade-based economy. In later years, the economies of some city-states (such as Athens) relied more on trade than agriculture, which was the traditional economic base for ancient societies.

In honor of Zeus, games were held. Crowds of all kinds of people (everyone who was interested) would gather to watch games such as discus-throwing, longjump, and running.

"Every fourth year between 776 BC and AD 395, the Olympic Games, held in honour of the god Zeus, the supreme god of Greek mythology, attracted people from across Greece. Crowds watched sports such as running, discus-throwing and the long-jump."

Contest in ancient Rome were held in the places that suited them. The chariot races were held in the Circus, the gladiatorial contests were held in an arena and the poetry contests were held in a theater.

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