Ancient Greece

No, they did not have guns yet. [You don't need guns to have cavalry in a pre-gunpowder era. All you need are horses and whatever military weaponry was available.] Chariots were used by the Egyptians and Sumerians, but the Hittites were the first to breed a horse large enough for a soldier to ride. Because the terrain of Greece was not conducive to large-scale cavalry operations, Greek cavalry were used mostly for scouting and skirmishing. Their Macedonian cousins to the North where the terrain was more level put a greater emphasis on cavalry. At the Battle of Chaeronea, a 16-year old Macedonian prince named Alexander and the Companion Cavalry were instrumental in defeating the Greeks led by the city-state of Thebes. Afterward, Alexander became king and defeated the Persian Army four times and the Indian Army once to carve the greatest empire the world had yet seen. Each time, he personally led the Companions which were the best heavy cavalry in the world at that time, while the general Parmenio led the Greco-Macedonian infantry phalanx. [If anyone is interested, you don't need guns to have artillery either. The Greeks had missile-launcing devices called catapaults. Greek infantry were armed with spears, swords, bows, slings, and javelins, but the principle is the same as modern infantry armed with guns. The Macedonian Companion Cavalry which united Greece and invaded Persia was considered heavy cavalry. After their contact with Persia and India, some Greek armies used war elephants as ultra-heavy cavalry.

It was the first place to hold the Olympic games

They did. 2 of the greatest ancient greek libraries were:

The great library of alexandria
Library of pergamum

• Absolute The opposite of relative, conditioned or dependent. The idea of the Absolute dates back to pre-Socratic times. For Plato, the Ideal Forms were the Absolute. For other philosophers the idea has been associated with that of the Godhead.

  Certain rationalist thinkers, such as Spinoza, held the Absolute to be an all-encompassing principle and the true source of all reality, as did the idealist philosophers, most notably Hegel.

• A Priori Something known to be true or false prior to experience. Its opposite would be a posteriori, which is knowledge derived from experience.
• Aesthetics The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, or in Kantian philosophy the branch of metaphysics concerned with the laws of perception.
• Agent The self that acts, chooses, and decides as opposed to the self that knows.
• Agnostic One who believes that God's existence cannot be proven, but doesn't deny the possibility that God might exist.
• Agnosticism The belief that no proof can be given for the existence of God since the concept of God like those of soul, immortality, and first cause lises beyond the reach of the human mind, which can only know the world of natural phenomena.
• Atheism The absolute belief in and denial a=of the existence of a God or Gods.
• Atomism The Theory of Democritus and Epicurus, among other, which claims that the entire universe is composed of minute, indivisible and indestructible particles.
• Cynic A member of a school of Ancient Greek philosophy, namely Cynicism, wherein virtue was seen as the only good and selfcontrol as the only means of attaining virtue. Cynics not only showed a complete disregard for pleasure, but also expressed contempt for human affection, preferring to find fault with most individuals for their lack of virtue. Diogenes was perhaps the most renowned Cynic.
• Dialetic A greek Term originally used to describe the Socratic method, according to which argument and reasoning took the form of dialogue.
• Epicureanism Named after the Greek Philosopher Epicurus, this strain of moral philosophy advances the claim that pleasure mainly understood as the avoidance of pain by opting for intellectual pleasure, needs to be understood as the basis for leading an ethical life.
• Pantheism The doctorine that identifies Gods or gods with the forces and workings of nature.
• Presocratic Of the time before Socrates.
• Stoicism The Greek school of Philosopy founded by Zeno of Citium around 308 BC. The Stoics believed that happiness lay in accepting the law of the universeand advised equanimity in the face of good and bad fortune alike. They held that human beings would be happiest of they freed themselves from passion and calmy accepted all occurences as the result of divine will.
• Theism Most specifically the belief that a single God is present in the world as well as transcendent.

Ancient Rome was at it's peak in the year CE 117.

The Ancient Greeks were truly ahead of their time. From science to technology, they built the foundation for generations to come. Due to their advanced technologies, the Greeks are simply regarded as the forerunners of Western Civilization.

City governments in the early United States tried to incorporate the needs of the masses. There were many more citizens compared to the leaders so this was an important principle.

Rocky and arid land did encourage them. Natural harbors, plentiful resources, and long growing seasons did not.

Macedonia was the kingdom in northern Greece which produces Philip and Alexander the Great. The Greek word means tall and slim.

It was a multicultural and multireligion empire. Alexander tried to marry the different cultures, bringing them the greek culture but also keeping the local tradition and cultural heritage. He engouraged weddings between his high ranking stuff and local population.

Sparta was a Greek city-state that was a feared warrior society.

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Small and Independent.

For the mathematicians and scientists of ancient Greece, the motive was intellectual recreation more than the solving of practical problems. Later in history a great many practical problems have been solved by the use of mathematical and scientific knowledge developed in ancient Greece (and greatly expanded in subsequent eras) but at the time no one knew or anticipated that such uses would ever be found for abstract knowledge. It was just interesting.

They built upon the earlier Greek, Babylonia and Egyptians knowledge.

plato

Alexander The Great took control of all the greek city-states and expanded the rule of Greece to the edges of India.

- Answer: Alexander The Great

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When king Darius was retreating after defeat at Gaugamela, Bessus killed him and made himself king. When he was captured, Alexander had him tried and executed for regicide.

The ancient civilization of Greece was located in southeastern Europe along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

he did not defeat andriscus. he was killed by julius ceaser in the heat of battle.

Yes. Planet < πλανήτης (αστήρ) = wanderer (star)

his skill as an architect, sculpture, and inventor

Zeus

they would leave town

Rome made many contributions to literature. Here are just some of them. The works of Virgil and Horace. The works of Cicero. The first novel by Petronius Arbiter, the writings of Apuleius. The works of Seneca.

The serf population rendered half its produce to Sparta.