Ancient Greece

The Golden Age referred to the prosperity and cultural advancement of the community. Socrates was executed because he was teaching some students to think for themselves, rather than blindly following religious and political customs. These inhibitions did not affect the advancement of culture and prosperity of a Golden Age, but rather challenged how the state operated politically and religiously.

Greece is mostly poor agricultural land - fishing provided a source of scarce protein.

A large part of Greece is islands, and communications were via the sea.

They also overpopulated mainland Greece and had to send out surplus populations to seize new lands around the Mediterranean and Black Seas - by sea.

Trade was largely dependant on water transport.

No gods are evil, they merely play according to their own rules. No god can be singled out as really "evil"; most of them were kind to those who worshipped them and fair (according to their own rules) to everyone else (which still allows plenty of room for being vengeful if someone wrongs them, of course).

Olympia got its name from its great view of the olympic mountains.

The most important room in any ancient Greek house was the "sodomatorium", this is where the Greek family enjoyed most of it's leisure time, so much so that it was a well known saying that "no greek man could ever leave his brother's behind".

Hippocrates, the ancient Greek known as the "Father of Western medicine," recommended fasting as a means for improving health

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Tragedies were written specifically for performance during religious festivals. Each author put forward his latest work, and those selected by the festival organisers were performed for the first time during the festival.

Each day would be a trilogy of tragedies by the same author, followed by a satyr play and then a comedy to make a full day's entertainment. The best plays during the whole festival were awarded prizes.

Once performed these plays could be exported to other cities, and the best ones were repeated over and over. A few have survived and are performed today, but as theatre rather than as a religious celebration.

No. ancient Rome and ancient Romania were two vastly different places. Ancient Rome was in Italy on the Tiber river. Ancient Romania, was called Dacia in the times we are talking about. If you look at a map of Europe, you can see how far apart the city of Rome and the country of Romania are.

Greek Myths of greek gods and goddesses helped Greeks to understand everything from love to natrual occurences like earthquakes and lightning.

Yes, many inventions from the Greeks like concrete, the arch, the aqueduct, anchors, and dice, to name just a few, are still used today. Others, like the dioptra and the stentorophonic tube are not as "famous" and are not as frequently used by the public.

in the odeon. Its an ancient greek theater.

Until 146 BCE that the mainland of Greece was fully occupied by the Roman Army and became a region of the Roman Empire the Greeks defeated successfully all invasions to their territory.

The states of the Alexander the Great successors survived a later occupation [Kingdome of Egypt - Cleopatra 30BCE].

if they did it was very rare. some people believed that the actors were gods in the forms of humans (they thought that was why the actors were so good, because they were gods) so only the foolish people who had no fear of the "gods" would throw items at the actors. does that help?

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History students will mostly know him for his failed invasion of Greece and the lost Battle of Marathon there. Historians however mostly see him as an able administrator who reorganized the administration of his Empire, much improved its infrastructure and who created a uniform system of weights and measures, an important improvement for trade.

This was Sparta. The whole of Spartan Life was that of a warrior. The Spartans were trained from the age of 7 to become warriors. Indeed it was only after passing training that they were accepted into a "Soldiers Club" (In Sparta there were Many) and they then, once accepted became Citizens, aswell as soldiers.

The Hellenistic civilisation was established in the the kingdoms which Alexander's generals established from his empire after his death. They established kingdoms of their own from the ex-Persian empire which Alexander had seized, settling down after much infighting to Egypt, Macedonia, Syria and Pergamon. The word Hellenistic means 'like Hellenic' as it affected only the Macedonian and Greek upper classes, the mass of people continuing their own cultures. Hellenes and Hellenic is what the Greeks called themselves - the word Greek was bestowed on them by Rome.

Greek lyric poetry often related the religious myths of the Greeks. Greek religion was based on mythology.

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Since Archimedes was an Ancient Greek, it is logical to assume that he believed in the 12 Gods of Olympus, the main religion at the time.

Greece currently is ruled by its Prime Minister (who since September 2015 has been Alex Tsipiras, but is prone to changing).

Historically, the vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections. Athens was a particular and unique case in that it had citizen-led rule (direct democracy) for a part of its time. Notwithstanding the fictional nature of Homer's The Odyssey, it should not be surprising that when Telemachus travels in the Odyssey, that not only is he the prince of the Kingdom of Ithaka, but that he meets the kings of Pylos, Sparta, and Mycenae. These places were ruled by monarchies.

Medieval Greece was either part of the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Venice, or the Ottoman Empire, or some combination of the three.

The low lying mountain ranges of Greece separated the land into individual communities (Polis) that were virtually isolated from one another because there were no navigable river connecting them. This led to a very personal government which was conducive to the formation of democracy. Also, the small size and poor soil quality of the land did not allow the city states to support large populations, which led to a mass wave of colonization. Because the climate throughout the Greek area was the same, Greek colonists could spread throughout the countryside without having to significantly change their way of life, resulting in the spread of Hellenistic culture. Colonization also instilled a strong feeling of individualism and humanism, which also led to the rise of democracy in Greece. (Information from the text book, Earth and Its Peoples).

Mainly anthropomorphic deities and personified concepts as in all of Ancient Greece. Athena (one of the 12 Olympians) was the patron God of Athens.