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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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Gifts the ancient Greeks gave the world?
Some gifts that the Greeks gave the world include architecture, dance, theater, democracy, and even some business styles. The Greeks also offered food and wine along with the practice of exchanging gifts on a person's birthday.
In Athens most of the boys from poor families did?
Became sailors, soldiers, labourers, or went with expeditions to form new Greek cities around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
When was ancient Greece destroyed?
Ancient Greece was not something which could be destroyed as an entity. It comprised 2,000 independent city-states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. These were progressively absorbed into Helleistic kingdoms and then taken over by the Roman Empire, not destroyed. You can see some of the cities in existence today - Alexandria, Athens, Syracuse, Constantinople (Istanbul) etc.
Who were allowed to perform in Greek theatre?
No. Women in Ancient civilizations had no great part in their communities. Since theater was a great part of their lives women could not take part in this activity along with many other things we take for granted today.
The ancient city (Thebes) is not called that. Thebes is actually the ancient capital of Egypt, or Alexandria.
city state
How did the Ancient Greeks Cut their hair?
The woman in ancient greece just tied there hair in a but, but did not cut it. The men got their hair cut with normal scissors as we do today.
Why didn't King Philip attack Persia?
You are probably asking about King Phillip II of Spain and the Invincible Armada. He built his boats in Spain and then sent them to his colony in the Netherlands. Each of his boats had more firepower than the English boats. The wood was not as good. They had nowhere near the maneuverability. The English boats simply would not get into the position where the Spanish cannon could shoot them. Instead, the English boats sailed all over the place and turned the Spanish boats to toothpicks. Then the Spanish Admiral decided to sail around Scotland and attack from a different direction. When he attempted to sail around Scotland, his armada ran into a storm and the rest of his fleet turned to toothpicks. His sailors manned the lifeboats and rowed for shore. They became loyal citizens of Scotland.
There was a King Phillip's War against New England settlers. King Phillip was an Indian Chief. He decided too many people were moving to America. He attacked the settlers, burned their crops, and killed a number of people. The settlers counterattacked. They burned the Indians' crops, killed many people, and burned many villages. Both sides faced the winter without food supplies. However, the settlers sent to England for more food, guns, and ammunition. The Indians had no supply bases. The settlers did not starve. Many Indians starved to death. The next year the war continued. The war ended with King Phillip dead and the area that housed the Indians open to settlement.
What was the name of the Athenian general that defeated Xerxes at the battle of Salamis?
The Greek fleet at Salamis was commanded by the Spartan admiral Eurybiades.
How did the ancient Greece adapt their farming techniques to their environment?
The land was rocky and hilly so they had to grow plants like olives and grapes which could grow in rocky soil
What inventions have been made in ancient times?
People tend to expose their prejudices and other biases when answering questions of this type.
Remember that we don't always know with certainty which culture invented a thing first.
Many cultures reinvented items that were invented earlier or at about the same time.
Numerous inventions are disputed. Here are some of the least controversial ones.
The Sumerians gave us time and angles. There are 60 seconds in a minute (not 10) and 60 minutes in an hour (not 10). A circle is 360 degrees (=60*60) (not 10*10) degrees. They gave us the first writing, the first types of laws, bread, biscuits and cakes, beer, bricks, the wheel, the chariot, the modern plough, the zodiac (of star constellations), sail boats and (probably also) glass.
Egyptians gave us pyramids and scary mummies. However they also invented wigs, the first locks, the first bellows, and the first large dam. They were very talented builders of monuments and they greatly advanced the skills of furniture-making, ship-building, jewellery-making and glass-making. In addition they made the first modern-style cosmetics.
Ancient Indians (Indus valley) offered us advances in mathematics, astrology, literature, medicine, dance and food technologies. They developed several irrigation and drainage systems. They gave us cotton. At about the same time as the Sumerians and Egyptians they gave us bricks, granarys and assembly halls.
The Greeks left us with democracy and the idea of freedom, justice including trial by jury, history as distinct from propaganda, the idea of proof, modern medicine, philosophy, sciences such as physics and biology and modern literature and theater. They provided great advances in poetry and art, architecture, and mathematics. They gave us the first real understanding of music and several popular sports as well as beginning the Olympic games.
The ancient Chinese gave us paper, pasta and noodles, fast food, simple printing, silk, gunpowder, concrete, wheelbarrows, flame throwers, toilet roll, paper money and football (yes they invented a game very similar to modern soccer more than 2000 years ago).
The ancient people of South America and Central America gave us chocolate, vanilla, potatoes, popcorn, peanuts and many other foods. They gave us rubber, chewing gum, terrace farming, freeze-dried food, hydroponics, cable cars, suspension bridges and obsidian knives. They reinvented beer and concrete. They gave us many types of medicines (including the world's first contraceptive pills) and some dangerous drugs (such as cocaine). Also they were great architects, builders, artists and artisans.
Aspasia was the consort of Pericles, 'first citizen' of Athens, and reputedly exercised influence over him. She is mentioned in several comedies of the time. She had a son also called Pericles, who as a general was later executed for not saving the lives of seamen of warships sunk in the battle of Arginusai
One contemporary poem said that some drunken young men of neighbouring city Megara visited her brothel and stole one of the girls. She persuaded Pericles to impose a ruinous penalty on the city, and it was this which led the Peloponnesian League, of which Megara was part, to demand an end to it, and when refused, begin the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War which devastated Greece 'because of that mad bitch Aspasia'.
The facts of her life are unclear.
How did the gods myths and morals affects the ancient Greeks daily lives?
they made the world and world a different place when they lived their.
Why did Spartan mothers say to their sons Come home with this shield or on it?
When a hoplite (classic Greek infantryman) died or was severely wounded in battle, his comrades would carry him back atop his shield; when soldiers flee from battle in panic, they typically drop their equipment so as to run faster. Returning with, or upon, his shield meant that that Spartan had not fled the battle out of cowardice or (even worse) surrendered.
One may find it incomprehensible that a mother would demand that her son accept death rather than dishonor; however, in Spartan culture, martial honor was the highest virtue, and weakness the ultimate sin. Furthermore, in Sparta, individuals were regarded almost purely as tools of the state. Recall JFK's line from his inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" - the Spartans lived and died according to that principle. Spartan boys were drafted in the army at a very early age (as far as I know, as soon as they were old enough to walk & run) and sent to a training program far harsher than any boot camp on our planet today. All Spartan men (except those who had dishonored themselves) were soldiers, and all Spartan women were soldier factories. For those mothers, sending their sons to conquer or die was as natural as it was for American mothers to buy war bonds to support their sons in uniform during the Second World War.
What time did Ancient Greeks go to school?
They were educated in the home by their parents, as part of working on the farm, the household or a family business.
Rich families might have slaves to help, and the brightest and richest might go to an academy run by a philosopher as teenagers.
What was the language spoken in Sparta?
Spartans were Greeks, and they spoke Ancient Greek like their neighbours.
The Spartans spoke the Doric Greek language. The Spartans practiced the Greek Polytheism religion. Sparta existed from 900s 192 BC.
The people of Sparta spoke Greek.
What are the pros of living in ancient Athens?
At the peak of its empire, it extracted great contributions from the other cities and lifted living standards, putting half its people on the public payroll. For women, they were kept isolated at home in virtual purdah, for slaves it was very different with no rights or protection,
