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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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What happened to Greece after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization?
The Greeks went into the Dark Age
rennaissance
Which ancient civilizations existed in Europe besides Greece and Rome?
The Celts in France and Britain; Ancient Thrace in what is now Romania; ancient Malta; before the Romans took control of Italy there was an important civilization called the Etruscan; the Minoan civilization from Crete who traded with the ancient Egyptians
These are the ones I can recall from memory there were more. Try these names on the internet for more detailed information.
When Rome was at the height of her power her main European opponent were the German tribes. The Romans considered them "barbarians" but modern archaeological evidence indicate that they were quite a sophisticated people.
What ideas did Romans borrow from the Greeks?
The Romans adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet.
They adopted some of the Greek gods (Apollo, Asclepius, Castor and Pollux and Cybele, whom they called Magna Mater) and linked their gods to the Greek ones.
Their scientific ideas came from the Greeks.
They adopted Greek medicine.
They adopted Greek sports.
Their literature was based on the Greek tragedies and comedies.
Their elite men studied the two main Greek school of philosophy of the time: stoicism and Epicureanism.
From the late 1st century BC they adopted Greek sculpture
The adopted the Greek orders (styles) to make columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and modelled their temples on the Greek ones. However, for the rest, Roman architecture went way beyond the techniques of the Greeks. The Romans effected what historians have called the Roman architectural revolution.
Why is phalanx important in ancient greek?
It was a compact formation of 16 ranks, the spears of the first three ranks protruding. The rear ranks rested their spears on the shoulders of the ranks in front of them, and these plus small shields formed a defence against arrows fired at the phalanx. The phalanx was trained to wheel and reform in different directions, and was effectively a large battle tank.
This worked as long as it was phalanx fighting phalanx. But the Romans had learned to fight in open formation, each warrior having fighting space, and when they ran up against the phalanx, they manoeuvred around it, attacking it from all directions at once. The phalanx ceased to be an effective formation.
Geodemic (Geo=Geocentrism=cosmos in ancient Greece and Demos "people" in ancient Greek) is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through planet populations.
What was happening in Greece in 441 BC in the play Anitgone?
In 441 BC Athens entered the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians believed they were better and could take over all of Greece.
While the source of inspiration for both renaissance and neoclassical is the same, the difference with respect to decorative art would be the manner in which it is expressed.
Renaissance decorative art uses bold, dense, and flowing style elements. The use of allover patterning with exuberant expression is distinctly different from neoclassical interpretation of the same ancient themes.
Neoclassical decorative art is much more restrained and with the exception of fully developed perspective, is very close in compositional scale to the style elements employed in ancient Greece and Rome.
The neoclassical style was far more regal and constrained than the lavish renaissance style.
According to me I will say,yes
the epic of Homer are probably a reliable source of information about history of the ancient Greeks because we get hints about life during this period from two great epic poems, the Iliad( the greatest source of information about the Trojan War) and Odysseus, reveal much about the values of the ancient Greeks.
What spices did the ancient Greeks use?
the spices that the greeks used where:
rosemary parsely and mixed herbs!!;
Which Traditions in colonial government can be traced back to ancient Greece and rome?
the bicameral system in which the legislature is split into to an upper and lower house.
How long did the Ancient Greeks four elements last?
from the presocratic period through the middle ages and into the renaissance period. (fire, water, air and earth)
What did the ancient Greeks contribute to the history of western art?
The development of the first mathematical system of perspective (apex)
Euphronios and Phidias were artists who lived in ancient?
Euphronios and Phidias were artists who lived in Ancient Greece.
How is the ancient greek society barbaric?
It's hard to say since the word barbaric is actually from the ancient greek barbaros ; )
This ancient society of competing city-states, like almost any of its populace in those days, was highly militarized and quite despotic. There were small democracies that thrived primarily in the Classical Period, but even of these the percentage of its own population that would be dubbed a 'citizens' was disparagingly lower from what we would consider worthy of 'democracy' today.
That being said, and coming back to the word 'barbaric' which was usually used to denote a foreign entity of peoples, Ancient Greece cannot truly be taken at our own modern values, just as anywhere in the Medieval or historical world cannot be taken with modern values. Although we regard it as primitive or barbaric, you always have to gauge these things in relativity to the world which surrounds them. In their day, it could be argued, Ancient Greeks were quite civilized. It could be said that however militaristic and cruel the Ancient Hellenic peoples were,their aggressively ambitious neighbors within and without Hellas permitted, if not insisted, such behaviour.
We know also that Ancient Greeks had complex music, historiography, mathematics and to some degree science. It is somewhat hard to say, this considered, that the Ancient Greek society was uncivilized-- much easier to say that it, like most lands of the period, was a quite harsh and impetuous kind of place ot live.
Which ancient civilization was organized into city-states and which was a republic?
Ancient Greece was the first civilization to organize into city-states, which in turn became a republic along with Rome.
What event blinded the major Greek states to the threat from Macedonia?
After the Peloponnesian war, the city states were dishevelled. This gave the opportunity for Philip II to build a professional army, innovate his fighting equipment and strategies and build his wealth. He then proceeded to secure his northern borders against foreign threat and begin to work uniting the Greeks into one nation that could be used to combat the might of Persia. He used many tactics, some diplomatic, some subversive and some with outright force. Athens held the place of hegemony among the Greeks, and the orator Demosthenes, who had a personal grudge against Philip for snubbing him at the Macedonian court, tried to warn the Athenians of Philips intent to take the leadership of Greece.
he warned:
[10] When, Athenians, will you take the necessary action? What are you waiting for? Until you are compelled, I presume. But what are we to think of what is happening now? For my own part I think that for a free people there can be no greater compulsion than shame for their position. Or tell me, are you content to run round and ask one another, "Is there any news today?" Could there be any news more startling than that a Macedonian is triumphing over Athenians and settling the destiny of Hellas?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
As the eminent historian J. B. Bury writes:
As the hegemony or first place among Greek states had passed successively from Athens to Sparta, and to Thebes, so now it passed to Macedon. The statement that Greek liberty perished on the plain of Chaeronea is as true or as false as that it perished on the field of Leuctra or the strand of the Goat's River.Whenever a Greek state became supreme, that supremacy entailed the depression of some states and the dependency or subjection of others. Athens was reduced to a secondary place by Macedon, and Thebes fared still worse; but we must not forget what Sparta, in the day of her triumph, did to Athens, or the more evil things which Thebes proposed.
The Greek city-states of western Asia Minor rebelled against Persian rule. It was incited by Aristagoras the Greek tyrant of Miletus who had got himself into trouble by involving the Persian provincial governor in a failed attack on Naxos.
As he knew that Persian retribution was looming, he persuaded the other Greek cities to rebel, hoping to save himself. The revolt lasted from 499 to 493 BCE.by which time the Persians had re-established control and restored peace.
There was a wider flow on effect - Eretria and Athens had sent military assistance to the cities, and in the process had burnt down the Persian provincial capital of Sardis. After the revolt was settled, Persia sent a retaliatory raid to suppress these two cities and appoint Greek tyrants to rule them and keep them quiet. This raid was defeated at Marathon, and this convinced the Persians to take over all the cities of the Greek mainland to establish control and keep the peace.
This invasion was led by king Xerxes 480-479 BCE, but it also failed. War went on sporadically until 449 BCE, when the Persians gave up and left the Greek cities to go back to the usual incessant fighting amongst each other.
