Ancient Greece

A caravan is/was a large groups of pack animals (camels, mostly) and traders, transporting goods from one place to another. They travelled from oasis to oasis usually by routes that made sure that camping out in a barren desert spot could be restricted to a minimum. Camels can drink over one hundred liters in one go, and go without water and very little food for weeks on end. For humans, horses and mules the caravan carried its own water and food.

On walls and pottery in the house and in cemeteries.

The Greek people were polytheists, which means that they believed in many gods that comprised the governing forces of their world. The different gods represented different aspects of nature (physical and spiritual). Greek mythology is rich in stories, and played a heavy part in the classic Greek literature that is still in large-scale circulation (see The Iliad (the movie Troy), the Odyssey, and Medea especially).

The purpose of theatre could be:

1. spiritual. Sometimes a culture will put on theatre to show something that is important to the culture, a sacred myth or legend, for example.

2. entertainment. Theatre is, first and foremost, to entertain the audience. It is an actors goal to get you emotional about the play.

they made pottery to store food and beverages

Temples dedicated to specific gods or goddesses.

Priam was the last king of Troy. He was the father of Hector and Paris. It was Paris who seduced Helen of Sparta and so began the Trojan War which lasted for 10years. Priam was killed on the last day of the war. and it was Paris that killed Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a arrow. Hence the saying "Achilles Heel".

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Alexander the Great spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.

He never retreated or was defeated.

It is commonly known as a capital.

The Greeks aren't farmers because the land is very rocky and not fertile. They can grow some things, like olives, but not many things are able to sprout in the rocky ground. Becoming a sailor is smarter because, in Greece, you are never more than 85 miles from the sea.

It is said that Paris of Troy "stole" Helen of Sparta. Paris fell in love with Helen and sneaked her on a Trojan ship. He also said that the goddess Aphrodite promised Helen to him. They wanted to bring Helen back to Greece.

Other reasons are that they wanted to sack Troy for its good location and for spoils of war, and to regain the pride of Menelaus, after Paris dishonored him by taking Helen even though he was a guest in the household.

The Athenian alliance had the upper hand for the first two decades because of its naval superiority and using that amphibious capability to project its power around the Mediterranean littoral. When Persia then began to provide funds to the Spartan alliance, the Spartan alliance was able to build up a competitive fleet, and offer the best sailors and rowers double pay, and this combination swung the advantage to them. The Athenian fleet was eliminated in 404 BCE, Athens was beseiged and forced to surrender. The real outcome of 27 years of warfare was the devastation of the Greek world, ascendency of Persian influence in Greek affairs, and subsequently the ability of Macedonia to dominate the weakened Greek city-states.

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It is athens because people believed in simple luxury for themselves and there homes

In honor of, you mean? Well, loads of things - people mostly. Like Heracles (Greek form of the Roman Hercules), the gods, heroes and stories. All great heroes in ancient Greece wanted to be told in stories and have plays written about their lives, so, there were a lot of stories and plays.

Deus ex machina is a literary plot device that means "god from the machine." It is where a hard problem is suddenly resolved by an unexpected event occurring.

There are many important differences between Greek tragedy and Shakespearean tragedy.

Greek tragedy was performed as part of a religious festival (like a church Christmas play) - so the stories were already known to the audience, and everyone knew what was going to happen next.

Elizabethan theatre was commercial entertainment (people paid for their seats - like in a cinema). The stories were usually new, and an element of suspense was nearly always present.

Greek actors wore elaborate costumes, and parts of the dialogue was sung (parts were even danced). Murders, fights and battles had to take place off-stage (a character would tell the audience what was happening) - as usually happens in opera or a ballet.

Elizabethan actors wore ordinary clothes (though they might be 'in period' for a historical play). They could scuffle, fight - even 'die' - onstage. (Shakespeare has Tybalt die onstage in Romeo and Juliet, to good effect).

Because Greek drama was semi-offical, Greek playwrights tended to be highly respected public servants. Most Greek plays take a broadly politically conservative stance (though the best plays can be quite subtle in the points they make).

Elizabethan players were seen as anti-establishment (they were called 'masterless men'). Many Elizabethan plays are critical of official government positions - though there was rigorous state censorship to make sure they never went too far.

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Alexander the Great became king when his father, Philippo II King of Macedonia, was killed by his guard's captain, a man called Pausanias. Alexander was 18 when it happened.

They used man-power; people would row the ships.

They joined together with other Greek cities to assemble naval and land forces which could match the Persians, and used superior strategy and tactics at the battles of Salamis, Plataia and Mykale.

What role does the character play in his own suffering.

The women of Sparta had rights, participating in sports and open lifestyle, compared with Athenian women who were kept in purdah in the home rearing children and working in the house and garden.

The competition of the two powers of the Ancient Greek world was on going for centuries. The longest faught war though was the Peloponnesian war [term given later by the historians] which started at 431 and ended at 404 BCE ans caused the deaths of many including Pericles son and later his own.