Ancient Greece

As long as they lived or until they were deposed. By the 6th Century BCE there were very few city-states ruled by kings - most were oligarchies and Athens was developing democracy by the end of that century. And Sparta was already a limited democracy, even though it had kings.

Monarch come from the Greek words meaning one ruler - a king would have complete authority, but customarily a monarch would have a council of advisers to assist him, and some also had peoples assemblies as well. They would usually also have provincial governors responsible to the king and his council to administer a particular area, like state governors today.

The Greek archipelago.

The Acropolis.

Ancient Rome had originally fought as part of a phalanx similar to the Greek version. A evolution of change began when the Roams found out at the River Allia, this formation could be subject to an envelope tactic which enabled the attackers to penetrate the Roman flanks. In time the phalanx was therefore discarded into the legion.

They used a hill for a fortress (acropolis acro = topmost, polis = city) in the middle of their farming land, on which they could take refuge when invaders came along. Then a city would build up around the fortress and often walls around the buildings to protect them too.

The battle of Marathon is a notable example how a smaller , yet determined , force (Greek) which is heavily armoured with superior tactics can decisively defeat a numerically superior enemy (Persian) .

javelin , sprint.

Greek Theater originaloly celebrated religious festivals that honored Dionysus

they reigned and traded in and around the aegean sea.

they had both spent time sailing in the water.

They both were the first two cultures to be developed in greece.

(Mycenaeans were first because the only spoke greek.)

They had very similiar pottery, religion: they both believed in 1 goddess, they had the same palace layout:open for all except a few rooms only for nobles rather than the common people, however, the Mycaneans were more focused on weaponry and military rather than the artsy Minoans which painted in very vivid colors. Mycaneans painted their hunts while Minoans didn't. They both: used metals, gold was for nobles, bronze was for tools,had small figurines made by hand for religious practices, head religious water, deep bathtubs to fit comfortably, writings were in linear arrangement but only Mycanean has been translated.

They both traded and they were both in Greece

Barbarian

The Ancient Greek word for hope is 'ελπις'. It is pronounced el-pis (both the 'e' and the 'i' are short vowels.).

Originally, to be accepted by their tribe as a member and hold property to a certain value. Under the democracies, the property requirement was waived.

An acropolis was a high point in a Greek city which was usually fortified as a refuge in time of invasion.

If it is the Acropolis in Athens you are querying, it was rebuilt several times. It held temples to the gods and the city treasury. Original wooden buildings were rebuilt with stone temples in the 7th Century. When the Persians invaded and captured and held the city in 480 and 479 BCE, they destroyed the temples and broke up the statues of the gods as a reprisal for Athens' participation in a burning of the Persian provincial capital of Sardis and destruction of the gods two decades earlier. The Athenians rebuilt the temples and refortified the Acropolis.

The Acropolis temples were rebuilt on a grander scale in the 440s-430s BCE - the remains are still there today. They could afford to do this rebuild because Athens diverted the funds it collected for the anti-Persian League defence to glorifying its own city.

The Acropolis buildings were well built and might have been in good condition if looked after. However during the Venetian expedition against Turkey in the 16th Century, a French artillery officer, to show off his marksmanship, lobbed a shell through the roof of the Parthenon. It landed on a Turkish gunpowder store in the building and collapsed the roof as we see it today.

Neglect has seen ongoing deterioration of the Acropolis buildings to today's deplorable state. A rebuilding attempt a century ago was a disaster as the iron interlocks put in to hold together rebuilt buildings rusted and expanded and exploded the stones. Acid rain eroded the statues while Greece debated how to go about doing something about it. No significant rebuild has taken place and the buildings are given minimum maintenance to keep them viable as tourist attractions.

the trojan horse myth

slavery is bad and discriminating slavery is unjust . end of conversation

Hellenistic culture was that which developed in the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great's empire which he had taken over from the Persians. It was based on the Greek culture which the Macedonians who ruled brought with them.

Alexander the Great was the 'champion'

He may not have been near liars, cheats, thieves, & egomaniacs.

Venus, the Roman goddess, was unknown to the Greeks. Their love goddess was Aphrodite.

The Greek fleet lost the naval battle of Artemesion to the Persians. As the defence of the Thermopylai pass had been to force the naval battle, the force holding the pass was withdrawn as having no further purpost.

A second successful sea battle was fought at Salamis.

A couple of the armies that were in Greece were the Athenians and the Persians.

Although it is uncertain from which country yams originated, yams are one of the oldest food plants known. They have been cultivated since 50,000 BC in Africa and Asia. In addition to these continents, yams also currently grow in the tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America.

They carried their culture, religion and other goods with them everywhere they went. This spead their ideas with the whole world, thus making their civilization better.

Hippocrates viewed mental illness to be caused by the humors. Mania was understood to be caused by an excess of hot yellow bile, melancholy (or depression) was understood to be caused by an excess of sticky thick black bile, and schizophrenia was understood to be caused by an excess of cold mucous. Unlike earlier tribal or agrarian societies, Hippocrates believed that mental illness had physiological causes. People with mental illness were understood by Hippocrates to be suffering from an illness, rather than having exhibiting symptoms because they were being punished for something they had done or would do.