Ancient Greece

Both had well thought out strategies and military tactics, and large effective armies and fleets.

Both relied on amalgamating separate forces. Both had large Greek components to their armies and navies, the Macedonians who were Greek, led a unified Greek army and the Persians paid Greek mercenaries.

After the partial failure of his punitive expedition of 490 BCE against Eretria (captured, inhabitants enslaved) and Athens (turned back at Marathon and in front of the city), Darius determined to bring mainland Greece within his empire. The mainland cities had been supporting revolts by the Greek cities within his empire (esp Athens and Eretria) and he thought that by absorbing mainland Greece, he would establish an ethnic frontier in the west.

He therefore determined to bring whatever cities he could under his rule peacefully (by bribes, and promise to make a faction in a city, rulers under his rule). Those who resisted would be captured, and rulers imposed on them.

He was temporarily diverted by an uprising in Egypt, and then died without launching the expedition. His son Xerxes began to carry it out in 480 BCE.

This is a very basic answer, but ancient Greek soldiers wore armor made from bronze and leather, with a helmet and greaves. For capturing cities they used battering rams, catapaults, towers, and other seige technology, some of which is used today (trenches for example, like the one they dug around Troy). By making their spears longer and having their soldiers stand in rank and file, they invented the phalanx. They also used cavalry and chariots, and later armored elephants. At sea, their warships were rowed by two or three hundred sailors, with a few marines for boarding. The mast and sail were taken down for combat, and an underwater prow was used for sinking enemy ships by ramming them.

Some of Achilles' attributes were that he was immortal except for his heel, he had consuming rages, and is a skilled warrior. There are some stories that have also said that Achilles was able to heal the wounded.

The war was between Athens and Sparta, city-states of ancient Greece. Athens and Sparta engaged in a long and costly struggle, the Peloponnesian war (431-404 BC) and the more martial society, Sparta, eventually triumphed. (Sparta's victory provides a warning that, in a struggle between autocracy and democracy, democratic peoples cannot assume that freedom will triumph.)

women and children were supossed to get on the lifeboats first, but somehow second class men doubled the survivors of first class children, and even women. so basiclly, men were mainly the survivers

To show off the financial power of Rhodes. It is one of the wonders of the ancient world, even though the statue only lasted for 50 years before collapsing due to an earthquake. It is like the statue of liberty (though the colossus was much bigger.) It represents positive things about the roman empire, like freedom to the S.P.Q.R. (Senate and the people of rome.) It could symbolize courage in battle, and was an imposing image to anyone entering the bay or rhodes. It might have scared off enemies of the state. There were many different things the statue could have stood for.

The Mediterranean, Aegean, lonian and the Sea of Crete all border Greece.

The Ionians lived in Asia Minor, and stayed there for three thousand years until after World War 1 when they were evacuated to Greece after a lengthy war against Turkey which then owned Asia Minor.

Telemachus is the son of Odysseus. The first four books of the Odyssey describe Telemachus' travels in search of news of his missing father; they are sometimes called the Telemachy.

The battle of Thermopylae is one most gory battles of the Persian wars in the battle the Spartans held off the Persians with the help of 7,000 other helpers, then a hunchback named Ephialtes told the Persians about a passage way to go around back to the Spartans. The next morning thousands of ailed forces left 300 Spartans to hold them off even though they knew they were going to die

(1) to strengthen athenian democracy(2) to hold and strngthen the empire

(3)to glorify Athens

Modern day people think of him being bad, being the god of death and whatnot, but the Ancient Greeks never saw death as a bad thing, just the entrance to a new life. They did not necessarily welcome it, but they did not fear it as much as we do today.

He wasn't seen as evil or bad.

The only thing that was bad about him was the fact he actually stolen a woman to be his wife, but then returned her. lol. Weird right?

Greenland has a Parlimentary Democracy within a constitutional monarchy. The chief of state is the king or queen of Denmark. The head of government is the Prime Minister, who is elected by the Greenlandic Parliament. The 31 members of parliament are elected every four years. All citizens over the age of 18 can vote. The country is broken up into three districts called landsdele. Within each district are eighteen municipalities. Amyor and district council run each of the eighteen municipalities. They are elected every four years.

In the 1827 Battle of Navarino, the combined colonial forces of France, Russia and Britain fought the Ottomans to create the Republic of Greece in a pattern of invasions that sought to carve up the near east into their colonial dependencies. Eventually Britain imposed King George I as the official head of the new country in 1863.

If I believe in more than one God than my belief system is polytheistic, whereas if I believe in only one God than it is monotheistic.

The current leader of the Greek Orthodox Church is His Beatitude, Ieronymos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. Archbishop Ieronymos, aged 70, was elected on 7 February 2008 by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

The Greek cities sent their surplus populations out and established city-states around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Some were sent to North Africa - eg Tripoli (Tripolis in Greek = three cities). Then Alexander the Great captured Egypt and Libya, establishing Greek cities eg Alexanddia named after himself.

The question of how architecture of such antiquity has influenced modern architecture is more one of evolution than direct influence, although in parts of the middle east a more direct influence can be seen in the modern buildings of today, with a distinct regional style that one would not see in the west, normally. Essentially architecture, like all art and technology, has evolved over the centuries: Egyptian architecture influenced Greek; Greek influenced Roman; Roman produced the basis of classical architecture which still forms the basis of proportion and scale still seen in much of architecture today. However, there are very many other influences, including less formal styles of architecture, in particular regional 'vernacular' characteristics. These are seen more in less 'designed' buildings, but have also crept into formalised architecture since the Victorian period, most particularly in the Arts and Crafts movement - Lutyens, Morris et al. It is also important to note that true modernist architecture - that seen since the early 20th century, doesn't conform to many of the accepted architectural rules of proportion and rhythm which resulted from classical architecture. I am not an Architect, so perhaps a proper Architect out there can add to this, and/or correct if I'm wrong in anyway.

The aristocrats succeeded the kings, and organised the political system to suit themselves. This is known as an Oligarchy (= rule of the few). By restricting the voting system to those with property valued at above a certain amount, they gave themselves control of government.

This had of course its limitations. In the unstable world of the city-states, it was essential to be able to raise an army to defend the city's territory (including their own). It was therefore necessary to widen the franchise to those who were military material (ie could afford the arms and armour of a warrior). This therefore included the small-farmers, who were neither aristocratic nor wealthy.

Keeping control of this widened electoral base meant keeping control of the law courts and the governing council. As in the Athenian case, when the lower classes gained control of the law courts, no one was immune, anyone could be prosecuted by anyone, popular juries sat in judgment and democracy (= people power) ensued.

They went for the same reason that we watch movies multiple times. They enjoyed the story and it was entertaining. Also,dramas were part of many religious festivals and ceremonies.

In general terms, the Ancient Greek political experience has been crucial to the shaping of Western Society (and political traditions in the West) for two reasons. First, its grounding in philosophical investigation has continued to shape Western Civilization: 'reason' is seen as a key to the establishment of healthy political agencies. Second, its own experiments in democracy have served as models and inspirations for later Western developments.

The Corinth Channel is located between the mainland of Greece and the Pelopponese, which is also a part of Greece, but no longer mainland since this channel was dug.

God's angels, Michael and Gabriel. Gideon was a warrior, and so was King David. Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, and Joshua.

The titans were indeed created by 'something'. according to the greek myths, in the beginningwere primordial forces. Accounts may differ , but Chaos is widely accepted as the first. Gaia, the Earth, came next, and Eros and Tartaros may also have sprung into existence at around the same time.

Gaia was the great mother, Earth, who created and then mated with the heavens (Ouranos) and the sea (Pontos).

From her union with Ouranos came the Hecatonchires (hundred-handers: Kottos, Briareos, and Gyes), the three cyclops (Brontes, Sterope, and Arges), and the Titans (Cronus, Rhea, Cruis, Coeus, Phoebe, Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Thea, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, and Themis). The Titan Cronus then killed his father, and then mated with Rhea and created the first Olympian gods (Zeus, Hera, Posiedon, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia). Zeus then killed his father Cronus, battled with the rest of the titans and won. Then Zeus and his wife/sister Hera mated and had the rest of the twelve Olympian gods and others, and they had children etcetera.