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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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How did the army from Macedonia defeat the Greek city-states?
Superior tactics, superior cavalry, and superior infantry using a pike twice as long as the Grek spears, making their phalanx an overwhelming machine.
Which is a legacy of ancient Greece?
When we create new words today (as opposed to adapting them from other languages), they are usually based on Greek eg all the psy--- words (psychology - psyche = soul, logos = a discourse).
How did ancient Greeks heat up bath water?
l think they heated it by the sun or fire.
The best answer l would guess in fire that is my most sure answer.
This is what l found through research so it is not exact
What are so more similarities between ancient rome and ancient Greece?
Greek influence extended as far north as thrace and modern-day northern balkans, as far east as Arabia and anatolia and turkey, as far south as North africa, modern-day libya, and as far west as Italy and southern france, greek colonists inhabited southern italy Until the foundation of rome by Aenis the Trojan, a greek, before so Most cultures and civilizations in italy where influenced by the greeks and had a hellenic culture, throughout its life Rome would be in contact with the greek world, one of the first direct contacts with the greeks would occur in 390 BC In the Pyrrhic wars. after the pyrrhic war and by the time of the Punic war roman society would largely model itself after the greek world
What domesticated animals were found in ancient City-States?
Wild animals roamed the jungles of vegetation along the riverbanks or lived in the deserts to the west. They included lions, leopards, wild cattle, boar, gazelle, ostrich, vultures and eagles.
Who could read and write in ancient Greece?
Both daily life and education were very different in Sparta than in Athens or in the other ancient Greek city-states.
ATHENS: In ancient Athens, the purpose of education was to produce citizens trained in the arts, and to prepare citizens for both peace and war.
Until age 6 or so, boys were taught at home by their mother or by a male slave. From age 6 to 14, boys went to a neighborhood primary school or to a private school.
Books were very expensive and rare, so subjects were read out-loud, and the boys had to memorize everything. To help them learn, they used writing tablets and rulers.
In primary school, they had to learn two important things - the words of Homer, a famous Greek epic poet, and how to play the lyre.
Their teacher, who was always a man, could choose what additional subjects he wanted to teach. He might choose to teach drama, public speaking, government, art, reading, writing, math, and how to play another ancient Greek instrument - the flute.
Following that, boys attended a higher school for four more years. When they turned 18, they entered military school for two additional years. At age 20, they graduated.
Girls were not educated at school, but many learned to read and write at home in the comfort of their courtyard.
SPARTA: In ancient Sparta, the purpose of education was to produce a well-drilled, well-disciplined marching army.Spartans believed in a life of discipline, self-denial, and simplicity. They were very loyal to the state of Sparta. Every Spartan, male or female, was required to have a perfect body.
When babies were born in ancient Sparta, Spartan soldiers would come by the house and check the baby. If the baby did not appear healthy and strong, the infant was taken away, and left to die on a hillside, or taken away to be trained as a slave (a helot). Babies who passed this examination were assigned membership in a brotherhood or sisterhood, usually the same one to which their father or mother belonged.
Spartan Boys: Spartan boys were sent to military school at age 6 or 7. They lived, trained and slept in the barracks of their brotherhood. They were taught survival skills and other skills necessary to be a great soldier. School courses were very hard and often painful.
Although students were taught to read and write, those skills were not very important to the ancient Spartans. Only warfare mattered. The boys were not fed well, and were told that it was fine to steal food as long as they did not get caught stealing. If they were caught, they were beaten. The boys marched without shoes to make them stronger. It was a brutal training period.
Legend says ... A young Sparta boy once stole a live fox, planning to kill it and eat it. He noticed some Spartan soldiers approaching. In ancient Sparta, students were encouraged to steal, but the trick was that you could not get caught stealing. If you were caught, you were severely beaten.
As the soldiers approached, the boy hid the fox beneath his shirt.
While the soldiers quizzed him on why he was not in school, the boy let the fox chew into his stomach rather than confess he had stolen it. He did not allow his face or body to express his pain.
That was the Spartan way. Lie, cheat, steal, and get away with it, or else (you would be in big trouble!)
Somewhere between the age of 18-20, Spartan males had to pass a difficult test of fitness, military ability, and leadership skills. Any Spartan male who did not pass these examinations became a perioikos. (The perioikos, or the middle class, were allowed to own property, have business dealings, but had no political rights and were not citizens.)
If they passed, they became a full citizen and a Spartan soldier. Spartan citizens were not allowed to touch money. That was the job of the middle class. Spartan soldiers spent most of their lives with their fellow soldiers. They ate, slept, and continued to train in their brotherhood barracks. Even if they were married, they did not live with their wives and families. They lived in the barracks. Military service did not end until a Spartan male reached the age of 60. At age 60, a Spartan soldier could retire and live in their home with their family.
Spartan Girls: In Sparta, girls also went to school at age 6 or 7. They lived, slept and trained in their sisterhood's barracks. No one knows if their school was as cruel or as rugged as the boys school, but the girls were taught wrestling, gymnastics, and combat skills. Some historians believe the two schools were very similar, and that an attempt was made to train the girls as thoroughly as they trained the boys. In any case, the Spartans believed that strong young women would produce strong babies.
At age 18, if a Sparta girl passed her skills and fitness test, she would be assigned a husband and allowed to return home. If she failed, she would lose her rights as a citizen, and became a perioikos,a member of the middle class.
In most of the other Greek city-states, women were required to stay inside their homes most of their lives. They could not go anywhere or do anything without their husband's permission. They could not even visit a woman who lived next door. They had no freedom. But in Sparta, things were very different for women who were citizens. They were free to move around, and visit neighbors without permission.
No marvelous works of art or architecture came out of Sparta, but Spartan military force was regarded as terrifying. Thus, the Spartans achieved their goal.
Other City-States: Greeks from other city-states educated their children much as Athens did their children.
Nearly all the other city-states, including Athens, had a grudging admiration for the Spartans. They would not want to be Spartans, but in times of war, they wanted Sparta to be on their side. The Spartans were tough, and the ancient Greeks admired strength.
What details here suggest that the source of wind was mysterious to ancient Greeks in the odyssey?
The source of the wind is mysterious even to most modern people. Most people, if confronted with the question, wouldn't be able to provide an adequate answer. That said, imagine that you are a Bronze Age human, with simple scientific knowledge and tools. You can't see air, and you really don't even know it exists, but you can feel the wind. It must have been hard to conceptualize without first having the concept of what the air was.
Were Greek gods always perfect?
Far from it, in fact in many instances they express the worst of people, they are often, angry, vengeful, deceitful, lustful, adulterous, murderous, and basically any other primal instinct that exists. so no they were not perfect, they were simply beings with enormous, non-understandable, and inconceivable control of the fabric of life.
How did the location of ancient Greece affect ancient Greeks lives?
Ancient Greece was a peninsula and it was filled with mountains. Since there was little ground for farming, they turned to the sea for food. They would trade and spread ideas by this. Since mountains made overland travel difficult, city states were separated and had very different ideas about philosophy, way of life, and politics.
What is the historical significance of Macedonia?
Ancient kingdom The first recorded Macedonian kingdom emerged around the 8th century B.C, under a dynasty originating from the city state of Argos, who also claimed descendence from the mythical hero Hercules. According to legend, they migrated to the region and gave their name to it: the Argeads. It should be mentioned that the Macedonian tribe ruled by the Argeads, was itself called Argead (which translates from Greek "descended from Argos"). The first recorded king was Perdikkas the 1st. Geographically, the kingdom was situated on a plain between two rivers: Aliakmon and Aksios, north of the Olympus mountain, the home of the Ancient Greek Gods. In the coming two centuries, the kingdom gradually expanded north, conquering neighbouring tribes. The capital was built around 500B.C and it was called Aiges (which translates from Greek "Goats") modern name: Vergina, located about 50km from Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. During the Persian wars (490-479.B.C) Macedonia was conquered by Darius, yet the kingdom regained its independence under King Alexander the 1st. The situation that allowed the Kingdom of Macedonia to its height at the 4th century B.C. is due to the preceding civil wars that left the rest of the Greek city-states in ruins; first the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) between Athens, Sparta and their allies, and the following Theban hegemony wars (circa 370 B.C.) between Theba and Sparta made it possible for Phillip the 2nd of Macedon to expand his kingdom to the south. Yet Phillip did not have in mind to subdue his fellow countrymen, but to unite them against an old and far richer foe: Persia. His son, Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) embarked on a campaign that would spread Greek culture and civilization from Northern Greece all the way to the river Hindus, in east India. Alexander's adoption of the styles of government of the conquered territories was accompanied by the spread of Greek culture and learning through his extended kingdom. Yet Alexander did not live long enough to finish his campaigns. He died, but left no apparent heir-on his deathbed, when asked who is to take his place, he replied 'Krat'oisto' which in Greek would have three possible meanings at the time: 1)he meant his general Krateros(=Strongest, in ancient Greek) 2)'to the strong-est' 3)'to the strong-er'. Krateros would be a wise choice=he was the commander of the infantry of Alexander's army, so whoever controlled the army, basically controlled the empire. Yet the people present at Alexander's deathbed chose to hear otherwise-they heard 'the stronger'-and that was the cause of the Wars of the 'Diadohoi' (322-301B.C). Through 21 years of civil wars, Alexander's generals managed to carve four separate kingdoms: The kingdom of Macedonia, under Cassander, Egypt under Ptolemy, Seleukia under Seleucus and Baktria under Lysimachus. Alexander's conquests left a lasting legacy in the new Greek-speaking cities founded across Persia's western territories, heralding the Hellenistic period, under which these kingdoms flourished. Roman-Byzantine rule In 146.B.C the Kingdom of Macedon was conquered by the Romans, and the region later became part of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire. In the 6th century A.D. Slavs moved into the southern Balkan peninsula, together with Bulgars, Patzinaks, Vogomils, and others. The Byzantines regained control only after 200 years in 1018 A.D. under the emperor Basil Bulgaroktonus (which translates from Greek "Bulgar slayer"). In 1430 B.C. the last city controlled by the Byzantines fell to the Ottoman Empire. 19th-20th Century The province of Macedonia in the late 19th and early 20th century saw immense warfare. After the failed Neo-Turk movement, many subjects of the crumbling Ottoman Empire longed for liberation/independence. The main ethnic groups in the region were Greeks, Bulgarians, Slavs and Turks. After two Balkan Wars (1911-1913) Greece managed to anex the largest part of southern Macedonia, Serbia got the north part and Bulgaria the east part, along with the province of Thrace. But that was not the last fighting there: after the First World War, were Greece and Serbia joined the Andante Powers, while Bulgaria joined the Central powers, the latter lost more grounds to Greece and Serbia. Greece was to enter war for a last time with Turkey in 1919, which brought the result of a population exchange between the two countries. Half a million Turks left Greece, and 1.5 million Greeks left Turkey. This resulted in an 'ethnic' cleansing of the region, since a second population exchange between Greece and Bulgaria had similar results. Modern History Today, the region of Ancient Macedonia is divided between three countries: Greece (61%), F.Y.R.O.M.-Rep. of Macedonia (30%) and Bulgaria (9%). There is a strong political debate between two neighbouring countries- Greece and F.Y.R.O.M. (Rep.of Macedonia). The dispute started with the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991. The southernmost part of the country declared independence and decided to take the name 'Republic of Macedonia' since its boundaries coincided with a small part of Ancient Macedonia. Greece protested since it felt that its history was being stolen. The majority of the population in F..Y.R.O.M. is made up of Slavs, with a considerable minority of Albanians (1/4 of the population) in the northwest and Bulgarians spread throughout the country. Their claim of F.Y.R.O.M.'s Macedonian identity is because the Slavic population that moved in the region got the name after it. Though the first president of the independent nation (Mr. Kiro Gligorof) stated that his country had nothing to do with Ancient Macedonians, and though the country's previous President (Mr.Georgefsky) became a Bulgarian citizen after his term ended, stating that his countrymen were not Ancient Macedonians, but Bulgarians, the dispute still goes on. What raises an eyebrow is that F.Y.R.O.M. does not fulfil any of the criteria to make a connection with the ancient Macedonians, since the language spoken there is a mixture of Bulgarian and Serbian, and the culture is considerably different than the Ancient Greek one that Alexander the Great spread throughout Asia. As mentioned beforehand, Slavs moved into the region on th 6th centrury A.D.-which would place them 900 years later than Alexander's rule, and 1200 years later than Perdikkas' first Macedonian kingdom. 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Why were the ancient Greek city states not united?
They had been at war amongst themselves for hundreds of years, and the habit was hard to break. Each city had it's own objectives, and groups of them formed temporary alliances to achieve them, switching sides when there was a benefit to them.
To unite, they had to have a common enemy. When Philip of Macedon might have provided this rallying point, he had already bribed some cities to support him. Even within each city there were different factions willing to do virtually anything for self-interest. As Philip famously said 'there is no city I cannot capture as long as there is a path up which I can drive a donkey laden with gold'.
How did the peloponnesian war lead to alexander's success as a conqueror?
Not directly - he came to power 70 years later.
Who was the main enemy of the Greek city-states?
Themselves. They used their plentiful supply of manpower to engage in endless warfare between themselves, causing serious losses, and so weakened themselves that they became easy targets for takeover by first Macedonia and then Rome.
What is a accurate comparison of ancient government and our modern government?
If this is comparing to free countries then:
Quite similarly-it was a democracy-except only men could vote.
What are some of the area of our lives that ancient greek culture still has an influence over today?
Architecture, Language, Art and Arts.
What is a piece of pottery from ancient Greece?
When the Greeks first colonised there was originally no area to safely dispose of human waste.
The Greek rulers demanded that pots should be used to contain and then ultimatley dispose of said waste.
Good question.
Were Greece and Rome both in the Italian peninsula in the ancient world?
Rome is on the Italian peninsula. Greece is somewhat farther east. Both are in the Mediterranean Sea.
In what feilds did Hellenistic civilization make advancements?
Astronomy, Mathematics, Geography, Medicine, Physics.
