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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 public works in ancient Greece?
The public works in ancient Greece were main jobs such as art, metalworks, priest's, merchants, military, etc. These jobs became extremely important that the city couldn't work without these jobs. People would buy materials from merchants and the cities military needed to have weapons to protect the civilization of Greece.
What were some contriutions in America from ancient rome and ancient Greece?
Much of our architecture has come from Ancient Greece. The Parthenon inspired the Lincoln Memorial.
Our law system is based off of Roman law. It was the first system to have
full time judges
right to face accusers
laws that applied throughout the empire, Provinces could also make their own laws. (similar to federal and state law)
When did city-state unite in ancient Greece?
After the dark ages, herding and farming sprang up again. Soon, borders of areas became fixed, each area became independent by 800 BC. There were forts on hilltops for protection, and a polis grew up around each one. The polis was the center of Greek community life. (The plural of Polis is Poleis.) People were Hellenes, or Greeks. Hellas was their word for Greece. There were two main city states: Sparta and Athens.
Plutarch was a greek scholar from Chaeronea in Boetia living in the early roman imperial period his date of birth is sometime in the 40's AD. He studied mathamatics and Philophy in Athens but lived most of his life in Chaeronea. He took positions in local magistaries as well as serving as a temple preist at the nearby (around 20 miles) sanctuary of Apollo in delphi. He wrote works on a varity of matters mainly philiophical and moral, but is best known for his parallel lives, a work that comprises of paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans arranged together so that each greek life compliments its roman companion. After these biographies he wrote a short comaprison of his two subjects. Included in these biographies were ones of mytholoical figures such as Hercules and Romulus. The works have a daedactic and moralising purpose of diplaying virtue in the lives of his subjects and are intended to teach a reader how to attain virtue in their own life. He became famous in the roman empire for these works and people would visit him in Chaeronea from across the roman world for interlectual conversation. Some of these conversations were recorded in his work Table Talk. Due to his choice of subject matter and the period in which he was writing he falls into the litteray genre of the Second Sophistic. (I appologise for the spelling errors in this answer)
What are three types of clothing worn by ancient Greeks?
Hoplites wore a crested bronze helmet, a bronze or reinforced linen breastplate, bronze greaves, a tunic, and sandals.
What caused the Greeks to become excellent fisherman and sailors?
Living in a poor agricultural land, the sea gave them the avenue for trade and to send out their surplus populations to establish new cities around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals. It was also a primary means for piracy and warfare.
What group of people made up the larger part of the athenian society?
wich type of athenian government caame first
How did the ancient Greeks fight?
This is a 'how long is a piece of string' question - over a period of 1,000 years they changed dramatically.
From the 8th Century BCE depicted by Homer, of charioteers fighting in and out of the protection of a shield wall of infantry, it developed into a shield wall of armoured infantry (hoplites) using spears with a few cavalry protecting the flanks and light infantry with bows, javelins and rocks, changing then to the phalanx of massed pikemen with light infantry protection, and then to Alexander's use of a combination of cavalry and phalanx with light infantry covering the gaps between the two.
An innovation apperared in the 390s BCE when a Spartan hoplite battalion was defeated outside Corinth by Athen's hired Thracian peltasts (light infantry), though that was partly bad tactics on the part of the Spartans who used their cavalry to protect their flanks rather than to run down the peltasts when they ran from the phalanx. However that led to Alexander's adaption of using cavalry with light infantry to bridge the gap between the cavalry and the flanks of the phalanx.
The phalanx was eventually overcome in the early 2nd Century BCE by Roman open-formation fighting and maoeuvering, which nullified the apparently rock-solid human-fortress concept. Attempts to reintroduce chariots against the Romans also failed, as did elephants as the Romans had learnt to handle these from their wars with Carthage.
What did the Greeks borrow from other cultures?
they borrowed technology from the muzazians and also borrowed the wood handcrafted designs such as musical instruments from the shopanians. Also they borrowed the building designs from the Egyptians and borrowed the armor and weaponry from sumerians. They needed an alphabet to so they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet from the romans
What did the ancient Greece trade?
Between the 10th and 6th centuries BC is when trade really became prominent in ancient Greece, particularly when other non-Greek cities became involved. Especially with the establishment of emporia, so-called trading bases such as Al Mina, Massaliot (modern Marseilles) and Naukratis, the ancient Greeks were able to make serious trading partnerships for import and export. The ancient Greeks were renowned for trade in the following items: * Grain * Pottery - particularly common is Corinthian ware * Wine & Olive Oil * Objects made of Gold, Silver, Bronze and copper alloy. * Also raw materials that were not available overseas. * Also luxury items such as jewellery and faience ware etc, but this may or may not have been shipped en masse. For extra information, look into other primary traders at this time, such as the Phoenicians as their paths often crossed. Also look at sources on grave goods and burials and information on the various Greek colonies overseas etc, e.g. Sicily and southern Italy. A lot of well-preserved evidence has recently been gathered from a Late Bronze Age shipwreck at Uluburun off the coast of ancient Anatolia - this was along the ancients trade route.
What was the first ancient Greek stadium called?
An ancient Greek Ampitheater was the theater Greeks performed on. Ampitheaters were built into a hill to make a sloped seating arrangement that without the Greeks originally knowing had caused an amazing type of sound filter that bounced sound even to the back row with great clarity of the actor's voices and noises. Every play that was held would be payed by a Greek Aristocrat or rich person. They would not be reluctant to pay for it because they believed it was a great honor to pay for it. Poeple that had enough money to pay for tickets to watch the show would have to pay, but people that did not have enough money were let in free, because of how important the Greek Theater was to Greece.
Did the ancient greeks always use money?
Before coins were invented, a barter system was in use (e.g. I'll give you 20 eggs for a new pair of shoes etc.)
After that they started using coins (around 8th-7th century B.C.) Each city-state had its own coins made of gold, silver, copper or iron.
What were the rulers of the Greek city states called?
The ancient Greeks called their leaders Archon. The Archon was the leader of the city-state, basically he was the chief-magistrate.
No, there isn't any evidence suggesting that maces were used by the ancient Greeks. The closest thing they had were wooden clubs.
What did Greek city-states share?
Overpopulation.
Language.
Religion.
Love of cultural activities.
Addiction to warfare between themselves.
Why didn't the Athenian army go out to fight the Persians when they arrived at Marathon?
They were in the middle of a religious festival but undertook to come in a couple of days when it was over. They then set off at a fast pace, but before they arrived the battle was fought. They marched up to Marathon, viewed the battlefield, congratulated the Athenians and went home.
In which area do you think ancient Greek culture had the most influence?
The principal influences on Greek culture were: Art and architecture: Egypt. Literature: The Phoenician alphabet which was adapted to Greek speech in the 8th Century BCE, enabling the recording of the epics - Iliad, odyssey etc. Poetry: The Mycenaean bardic tradition. Religion: The nomadic Ionian, Doric and Aetolian tribes which settled in Greece brought their sky gods, who were amalgamated with the earth deities of the indigenous people. Language: A common language was brought by the nomadic tribes. From the 6th and 5th Centuries BCE the eastern Greeks (Asia Minor and the Aegean islands) tended to lead in art forms, science and philosophy, with the west following.
What is the basic political unit in Ancient Greece?
Polis, or "city state," was the basic politicial unit of Greece.
What jobs did men have in ancient Greek?
they had architects-designed buildings, artist-designed paintings for the buildings made for rulers, poet- they wrote long stories called epics about heroic deeds, and politicians-people who made laws and helped run the government of ancient Greece and that's all i know so here you are.
How has Roman architecture influenced modern?
The ancient Roman architecture has influenced modern-day architecture by the reuse of columns. If you look at ancient Roman temples, many have columns around the exterior, such as the Pantheon. This is represented in the modern-day world in many buildings such as the White House, The Lincoln Museum, and many others.
The sparta's navy defeated defeated the Athenians navy :). Glad I could help!!
What are two leading Greek citystates?
The most famous city states in ancient Greece were Athens and Sparta. Dont think of Greece as a single country, they never were, more like every city having its own rules laws and independance from all others occasionally some would be able to influence others with military alliances and such but all were very independent.
