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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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According to early mediterranean mythology the royal line which would eventually lead to Rome was originally founded by Aeneas - a Trojan prince who escaped the fall of the city.
The Roman national poem - Vergil's Aeneid - tells the story of Aeneas' escape and how he came to Italy to found the city of Lavinia. Aeneas' son Ascanius then founded Alba Longa. And in the fulness of time Rhea Silvia gave birth to Romulus and Remus in Alba Longa, who in turn would build Rome.
Rome adopted many aspects of Greek culture, and spread them to the Roman World.
A different tradition says that Britain was also founded originally by a lord of Trojan descent. The story of Silvius Brutus is found in the medieval poem Gawain and the Green Knight (as well as other places).
Maps have been known to have existed for more than 8000 years from cave paintings in Babylon, Greece and Asia. The earliest maps are of the heavens not of the Earth. Babylonian maps were drawn on clay tablets and is one of the earliest representations, symbolic not literal. The depiction of the earth by Homer was a flat circular disk and in a way was limited to what could be seen from a mountain top. Pythagoras (560 - 480 BC) speculated on a spherical notion of the earth. Heroditus produced a more realistic map (440BC) of the Mediterranean and the surrounding lands, but knowledge was limited. The rise of the Roman Empire advanced map making techniques. In the mean time China had produced maps in the 4th Century BC. Arab maps were important in the 10th Century. Further exploration of the world added more details.
What two city-states were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?
megara were on the side of Athens vs. Sparta Argos didn't take part because they didn't want to get into trouble. in this way they were a sort of coward
A debate is a conversation with two different sides. The Romans many times would debate at dinners or informal gatherings. The main debating area was the forum. Public debates took place at the comitium, an open area in the forum, by the senate house, where, during the Republic, the popular assemblies met to vote on bills and elect officers of state. There was also the rostra, which was a platform for speeches on the north side of the comitium. The assemblies were addressed from the rostra. Candidates for the election of officers of state made their electoral speeches, and senators and private citizens spoke on bills. Appeal trials, which were decided on by the assemblies were also conducted from the rostra. This continued after these hearings were transferred from the assemblies to special jury courts. When the voting population became too big for the comitium, the site of the assemblies and the debates was moved to the opposite end of the forum by the Temple of the Castor. The senate also held its own debate in the senate house (curia).
What military technique was used against Athens and led to their surrender in 404 B.C.?
The city was invested, which confined them to the city and rendering them unable to provide food by farming. They used their superior fleet to bring in food and to raid and threaten their opponents' home cities. The Peloponnesian League concentrated on destroying the fleet. This was eventually promoted by the Persians providing money to build a superior fleet, which defeated the Athenian fleet, isolating the city. They then rounded up the overseas Athenian garrisons and sent them back to the city to help eat the sparse food and accelerate surrender of the city.
Athenians devised the practice of what to protect themselves against overly ambitious politicians?
Ostracism - banishment for 10 years. It was manipulated by the smarter ones to get rid of their rivals.
What did ancient Greeks use to cook with?
The ancient Romans used pots, pans, tines, large spoons and spits. Braziers an ovens were used for "grilling" and baking.
What are the accomplishments of phidias?
Phidias was an Ancient Greek painter, sculptor, and architect. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest sculptors of all time.
What are the rights and responsibilities of Athens?
- Citizenship alloted many privileges to the population of Athens
- Voting in direct democracy, those giving them a chance to have a saying in everything other Athenians did
What did a gymnasium in Ancient Greece function as?
A gymnasium in Ancient Greece was a place where adult men would train for athletic events. The athletic events were viewed as a tribute to the Greek Gods.
Was the Greek religion like the christian religion?
At the time of Jesus, the Roman empire ruled. Jews and gentiles lived under Roman rule. The Romans were not athiests. They also believed in gods, but their believes were very very flexible. The Roman theology stemed from the Greek theology. They had many gods, and they (Romans and Greeks) didn't have any strict religious rules that would govern their believes as a whole.
For this reason it was easy for the Romans to allow and live with people with other believes.
After Jesus died and many years after, the Romans compared Jesus to one of their own Gods.
Today the similarities between that god and what we know as Jesus is so strickingly similar that you can help to wonder which came first.
Keeping in mind that the people at the time didn't abandon their Roman and Greek theology completely at Christianity's beginnings.
What type of government did the Greeks reject?
The type of government that the greeks rejected was im sorry I dont know the answer put a question mark on your paper and tell the teacher that you don't know the answer
What was the government of Greek called?
Greece began by having monarchies, then oligarchies, then tyrannies and then democracies. The Greek Government is currently a democracy, but modern democracy finds it's roots in ancient Greece.
What was the purpose of a ancient Greek housemaid?
The maid was a slave who worked cleaning the house and surrounds, disposing of sewage, collecting water, helping with cooking, looking after children plus any other duties she could usefully carry out such as spinning yarn, weaving, and prostitution if the master of the house required it.
How did tragedies drift into comedies form ancient Greece?
Tragedies did not drift into comedies. The were performed at separate festivals: the tragic in the spring and the comic in the winter.
He was both.
He attempted to introduce Greek culture as a civilising influence amongst the peoples he took over, but was constantly diverted by conquests until his early death. After ten years spent conquering the Persian Empire and then beginning to introduce Greek culture, he was also planning a venture to take over Carthage and Sicily in the west when he died/was assassinated at the age of 30.
What do you call the last period of Ancient Greece before they were conquered by the Romans?
The last period of ancient Greek history was the Hellenistic period, which is categorised as starting from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC as ending with the annexation of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BC following the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII by Octavian.
How does democracy in Ancient Greece compared to democracy in the US today ask?
In their direct democracies, he citizens met in fortnightly assembly and made decisions which were implemented by a council. This was only possible by the smallness of the Greek city-state, where citizens could walk to and from the assembly. It is impractical in large countries today for such assembling for voting, so there is representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to attend a parliament and vote on their behalf - often not necessarily as the citizens would wish. Modern computing has now made it possible for citizens to vote but don't expect the political class to give up its power voluntarily and implement such a system anytime soon.
In which century BC was the golden age of Greece?
Any civilization's Golden Age is deep in its mythical past immemorial. The Golden Age of the Greeks probably refers to the late Stone Age, before the invention of metal weapons.
