Ancient Greece

The forms of government in ancient Greece tended to divide the people of Greece rather than unify them.

I believe it is called a solstice.

nero with the accent on o

The ancinet Greeks thought the Big Dipper looked like a big bear.

There were two main Persian campaigns into mainland Greece:

1. Darius I of Persia, in 490 BCE, sent a punitive expedition against Athens and Eretria - defeated by Athenian forces at the Battle of Marathon.

2. Xerxes I (Darius' son) - defeated in the naval battle of Salamis 480 BCE, and in 479 BCE in the land battle of Plataia and the sea-land battle of Mykale.

3. There was subsequent fighting, including the naval battles at Euurymedon 466 BCE and Cyprus 449 BCE, after which Persia signed a peace, undertaking not to intrude into Greek waters.

In Athens, the democratic system survived. Even without the income generated by the empire, democracy proved to be a well-functioning political system.This can partly be explained from the fact that during the war, the economy of Athens changed. Once, most Athenians had been peasants; after the outbreak of the Decelean War, trade and commerce became increasingly important. These activities were almost as profitable as the old empire.Thebes increased in strength and became a major power. Sparta, on the other hand, only temporarily benefited from its victory. Its social structure was unsuited for a world larger than the Peloponnese. In the fifth century, Greece had been a bipolar political system, but changed into a multipolar system.The great victor was, of course, Persia. Not only did it regain the Greek towns in Asia, but it was to have great diplomatic influence throughout the region .Many people had been exiled and had become mercenaries to make a living. Others had become professional soldiers because they could no longer return to their farms. Warfare became specialized .

In a pre-television age, the Greeks filled in their evenings by breeding prolifically. As each Greek city-state had very limited land, and each family had just enough for subsistence, it was not possible to split it up amongst several sons. So the surplus population was periodically shipped off around the Mediterranean and Black Sea coastlines to seize land and form new city-states. This ended up with over 2,000 cities spread from Massilia (today's Marseilles) in France and Tripolis (three cities- today's Tripoli) in Libya in the West to Asia Minor and southern Russia in the East.

The Zhou Dynasty in China was still going on.

The Phoenicians were from the Levant, not Mesopotamia. They passed on their alphabet.

The reality is that they did like living in city-states, which is why they developed them. It offered people the amenities of a better life with the protection of city walls against marauders, and within them the amenities of security, accommodation and culture which they wanted.

no not necessarily actually the Romans improved the greek way of life.

The translation for brother in Greek is αδελφός

ecology

Civilizations began in the city states and expanded through alliances and war. The borders of ancient Greece were ill defined but covered much the same area as modern Greece.

You seem to have left out 'the following' so we don't know what is in your (or your teacher's) mind.

The commanded sections of the army and navy. And as the executive government was in the hands of inexperienced citizens selected by lot, any important decision by the assembly of the citizens usually had a rider 'the generals to implement'. Unlike the other office bearers, the general were nominated one from each tribe - the Athenians didn't to be led in battle by someone whose name was drawn out of a hat.

The earliest school in ancient Greece was the Milesian School founded by Thales, information can be found on the Wikipedia web site, the other great school was founded by Plato. The Platonic Academy. Most children did not attend school, and those that did attended from the age of 7 till about 13 years of age. They learnt about politics and the rules of the assembly, they also learned weaponry ,warrior skills and wrestling.

so the answer is yes =) =p

They used myths to explain why certain events occurred in their everyday lives.

Persia was the superpower of the ancient world (before the rise of Rome); as the Greeks started to experiment with dangerous ideas such as democracy (Persia was autocratic) and citizen armies (Persia relied on mercenaries) it was inevitable that the two systems would come into conflict.

The Achaemenid kings of Persia (Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Xerxes I) were overall successful in expanding their empire, but Darius and Xerxes were aware that their sphere of influence was contained in the west by Hellenic domination of the eastern Mediterranean.

Both Darius and Xerxes accordingly mounted military expeditions against the small Greek city states, assuming that a huge empire such as Persia could simply brush these tiny democracies aside.

The Persian empire eventually spread to include the Greek cities in Asia Minor, the Islands and around the Black Sea. The cities were ruled by Greek tyrants appointed by the Persian provincial governors. As these cities were colonies of cities in mainland Greece, when they tried to throw off Persian rule, they called for help from the mother cities. Miletus did this, and Eretria and Athens responded with military force, which overstepped the mark by burning the Persian provincial capital of Sardis (modern Ankara). Persian emperor Darius mounted a punitive expedition against these two cities to try to put an end to interference in his empire. Eretria was captured and the inhabitants enslaved, but Athens turned back the expedition at Marathon and then in front of the city (490 BCE). Darius decided that, as the Greeks would become more cocky with this victory, the only way he could put an end to the unrest was to absorb mainland Greece and so establish an ethnic frontier. He planned a major expedition to subjugate all the cities there and install puppet tyrants as he had done in Asia. Darius died, however his son Xerxes continued with the idea, and invaded in 480 BCE. This too failed after defeats at Salamis (480 BCE), Plataia and Mykale (479 BCE). Thereafter there were subsequent confrontations with battles at Eurymedon and the Nile delta. It was all eventually resolved a century later by Macedonia when Alexander conquered the Persian empire.

hippocrates. he was known as the gadfly of athens and was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. he drank it calmly and then sat and talked casually to his disciples, wauting for the poison to take affect.

I believe it is art, my second guess would be music though

Women did not participate in the Ancient Olympics. Only Greek speaking men were allowed to participate.

Exception: in the chariot-race the owner of the horses was considered to be the competitor, and got the prize if they won. Women could put their horses in for the chariot race, and were considered competitors when they did.

They were established by Greek tribes which seized and settled an agriculturally viable section of land, developed a defensible city as its core, and established a government to coordinate their laws, defence and trade. They defended this territory against other cities and invaders, and so became fiercely protective of their independence.