Ancient Greece

It seems that it will. We still play Greek plays, and new words are very often based on Greek words like all the psy- words (psychology), democracy (demos = people, kratein = to have power), and thousands of others.

the difficulty of transportation led to the creation of many isolated communities.

He is mostly reliable as a source of information but this should be checked against other sources. He is prone to exaggeration (eg his description of the Persian army which invaded Greece gives the total levy of the Persian Empire at over two million soldiers, whereas probably only a tenth of that was selected to form the invasion force - so the gross numbers were correct, but he doesn't define those who actually went. Similarly his Persian fleet of 1200 was correct, but only the best 600 actually were used).

The real problem is that the other historians who covered the period were much more unreliable than he was.

During his life, Alexander conquered the known world. He controlled Greece, captured Persia and Egypt and built many cities throughout his conquests, many named after him [Alexandria]. He was king of Macedonia and Pharaoh of Egypt.

to create order. although some people thought it was anarchy

Marathon was a plain, not a city. It was owned by Athens. They fought a battle against a Persian amphibious punitive expedition sent by Persia in 490 BCE.

Greeks have always had their own language which was Greek. Greek is one of the world's oldest recorded living languages.

The history of the Greek Language begins around the late 3rd millennium BC.

In the classical period, about 500 BC, there were three versions of the Greek language. People who spoke one variety had difficulty understanding another type. Still, the languages were close enough that some people could understand the other speakers. Around 330 BC, Alexander the Great created Koine Greek by taking features from the different versions of Greek that he liked and made all Greeks use that as their language. After that, Greeks spoke Koine Greek in Greece and wherever Greeks settled from Spain to India. Until about 100 AD, a person could walk from Scotland to India using only Koine Greek.

Some were large and had major facilities, farming territory, economic and trade, and secure walls, some were little more than villages. And a wide range in between.

There was also a wide range of political systems which changed over time, back and forth - monarchies, oligarchies, democracies, tyrannies.

Sports weren't exactly played as they are today, and I am aware of no team sports, but at religious festivals and elite funerals, there were often Games, with competitions in events such as running, wrestling, chariot racing, javelin throwing and discus throwing, as well as less sporty events such as a competition for heralds.

The strolling bards sang his songs as they travelled around the cities - important in an age when there was no TV or movies.

Darius was the third king of the Persian Empire and the father of Xerxes I (the king of Persia mentioned in 300). He was the first Persian to attempt to invade Greece and was ultimately defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

To work diligently to support themselves and their family, to observe religious festivals, to raise families, to attend political assemblies, and to turn out to defend their city-state.

The formula for Greek Fire is unknown.

The exact formula is not precisely known; however, ancient references mention mixtures of liquid petroleum, naphtha, burning pitch, sulfur, resin, etc., a "secret ingredient" (phosphorus?). Essentially, it was the ancient version of napalm, and like napalm, it stuck to what it was sprayed on & was virtually impossible to extinguish. It was the supreme terror weapon of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire that helped sustain their power for centuries. In navel battles, they had flamethrower-like devices mounted on the front of their warships which squirted it out onto enemy's vessels. The best book for info on this is: "A history of the Greek Fire and Gunpowder" by J.R. Partington...

Tyrants.

Note: In Ancient Greece, the word "tyrant" meant "ruler," not "evil despot."

Depends on where they were employed. Household slaves worked until their masters went to bed. Slaves in the fields did sunup to sundown. Slaves in the mines worked until they died.

Council of 500 (chosen by lottery)= executive branch

Assembly of Citizens = legislative branch

Jury System = judicial branch

Attica,

the smaller peninsula in the Peloponnese in southern Greece and

the Chalkidiki peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece

That they had a talent for invention, innovation and producing results.

That they had an innate love of warfare and had little regard for human life.

That they had an innate love of and talent for the arts and artistic performances.

That they were suspicious of and looked down on foreigners.

That they had a deep respect for the gods, but were also quite willing to double-think and laugh at them.

That they regarded women and slaves as far below them with no rights.

That they had an independent spirit which resented subservience to others.

The Greeks would have more food. also the water would be pretty good supply.

Exports are:

grapes

wool

pottery

linen

weapons

jewelry

olives

and wine

:)

It evolved over time. Both Britain and Sweden developed it independently and both obtained it around the same time.

In the case of the UK, the English monarchs had been slowly restrained by parliament (and before that, the nobility) since 1215 and King John's forced signing of the Magna Carta, and over the centuries the role of the King was decreased over and over again. Starting from 1295,we had parliament and the King used to put all his officials into parliament (via a peerage or by getting them elected) which essentially created the principle that all ministers in government had to be accountable to parliament.

So, as time went by, parliament asserted itself again and again, actively deposing King Richard II in 1399, until the 17th Century when the Kings we had imported from Scotland earlier that century (used to a more docile parliament) tried to rule without parliament - this started a civil war and eventually we cut off this King's head (King Charles I).

After about a decade of supposedly 'republican' rule (actually a dictatorship) we got King Charles I's son back to be King (King Charles II) and he knew his place. The King, at this point, formed policy and appointed ministers to carry out his decisions. After that King died, we got another one (King James II) who was quite frankly very authoritarian and Catholic to boot, so we invited William, Prince of Orange, to invade, although hardly any fighting took place - most of the army sided with William. So when King James II escaped, parliament declared that he had abdicated and gave the throne to King William III and Queen Mary II; protestants who would rule through parliament. That was the real beginning of the principle that parliament is sovereign, not the King.

Then, in the 18th Century, the succession fell to the Hanovers, a bunch of Germans who didn't speak good English and had little interest in domestic politics. So, that was when we got our first 'prime minister' (even if the name didn't get used until much later - his title was 'first lord of the treasury') - Sir Robert Walpole.

So now, the King isn't taking much interest in politics, government is delegated to the prime minister with only very vague thoughts on policy coming from the King (though they did do slightly more on foreign affairs). The prime minister still had to keep the King happy as well as parliament though.

The beginning of the end for any royal role in politics began with (believe it or not) the American Revolution. The King refused to sack the prime minister Lord North or let him resign even though he himself had admitted he was no good at winning the war; he was eventually forced to by parliament. And so began a fifty year period of increasing agitation with the unfair system of election (pretty much unchanged since 1429), corruption in parliament, and royal battles with parliament. In 1832, the Great Reform Act signalled the end of royal interference as parliament was now truly accountable to the people, and the prime minister had to keep parliament happy rather than keep the King happy because parliament could strip him of his position while the King couldn't without being forced to abdicate afterwards.

So, I suppose you could say it was principally created by the 25 Surety Barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, Oliver Cromwell who was in charge when they cut off King Charles's head, King William III and Queen Mary II and the 513 MPs and 82 Lords who put him on the throne, King George I and our first prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, King George II and King George III, and finally Lord Grey who proposed the 1832 Reform Act.

It is probably true that the Greeks produced more art forms than we shall ever know because of their ntellectual productive period during the Golden Age of Athens.

The Greeks sank half the Persian fleet off the coast of Salamis.

Francesco Redi found out in his experiment of were maggots came from that they came from flies and not dead meat.(1668)

When the Persian threat abated, Athens converted the Delian League into a virtual empire and continued to collect the funds to maintain its naval supremacy at little cost to itself. This strength allowed it to intervene in the affairs of other states, which formed the Peloponnesian League as a counter. With continuing Athenian adventurism, conflicts arose which laid the path to war.