Greece

The Golden Age of Greece was after the Greek's wars with Persia which they won, by luck and the help of Athens' powerful navy. The Greek's realized that they needed to become one nation instead of separate city states who almost only shared a language.

Athens as the head, decided to setup the Delian League which all the city states in the alliance paid money to them in which they would create an army and navy in case the Persians tryed to attack them again. A good idea, right? It would have been if Athens hadn't become greedy. They did create a moderate army and navy, but most of the money went to their city. They created temples, theaters, buildings, everything. It was the height of Athens the classical era, or the Golden Age.

Sparta did catch on though and decided that Athens needed to be stopped. They fought the Peloponnesian War for 27 years in which Sparta finally won, BUT destroyed Greece in the process and made them vulnerable to the Macedonian invaders.

Phillip II conquered Greece but liked their culture and let them keep it. It was his son Alexander the great though that spread it across the known world.

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Whoa, there, you're trying to catch me on this one, huh? Truth is Greece has no set national flower or bird......While the most famous varieties of flora in the Greek nation are the 'violet', 'laurel', and the 'Bear's breech', none have been adopted as the national flower.....Hope this helps...TatuBaron

Me again, I realized that I had no idea of what a Bears breech was, so I did a little research.. The Bear's Breech is a member of the acanthus family, native to the Mediterranean area. These spiny thorny plants produce colorful flowers that inspired Greek architects of ancient days to make the Corinthian columns that Greek and Roman buildings were so well known for, and are still used today.....TatuBaron

Thermopylae- the slow down of the Persian army to allow Athens time to prepare to fight.

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.

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The website visittobulgaria.com says 18+

Am from Bulgaria and it say you have too be 18+ but if you go any where to eat ur see guys 8-15 drink no one real cares cause drinking over there isn't bad. Because Most of the time they don't get drunk or even tipsy unlike here in the USA if a 18 gets beer he try too get drunk.

The capital of Greece is Athens, which is also the largest city.

Answer The lyrics to Greece's national anthem were written by Dionysios Solomos. The anthem is made up of the first two stanzas of his 158-verse poem, "Hymn to Freedom." A few years later, Nokolaos Mantzaros set the poem to music.

Grapes (No wonder they defaulted on their debt.)

yes France is popular. and did you know that the eifell tower helps to make France popular by draging over the people from other countries to have people stay there because of its height and looks?

No due to Bureucracy reasons in part from the Greec KAS ( Central Archeological Comitee) and other involving parts from the Greec public, as i had red in a magazine that time. . It was filmend in Malta instead.

Greece has become a very difficult place to film or for any investment in general before the Crisis due to a mass bureocratic system that worhted not the cost to surpass.

However things seem to change now asthe KAS has becomend much more flexible seeing the effects of last decades stance. It allowed the filming of a new Holywood film in Crete KNOSOS with 100% of votes from his members

Distance between city-states, clothing, trade, and democracy were amongst some of things that were influenced by the geography of Ancient Greece. The Greek lived in a Mediterranean climate. Winters were mild and wet, and they were able to grow grapes and olives. Summers were warm and dry. Grapes and olives were one of the few plants that could survive droughts. Mountains cover Seventy-five percent of Greece. The land was difficult to cultivate and the sea surrounded Greece. This made trade extremely easy because the Greeks could get what they could not grow. They were also able to bring back innovative ideas from other cultures that they traded with. Because mountains cut off the Greek, this led to the formation of city-states. There was limited interaction and unity of the city-states, which ultimately created river lies amongst them. Such physical barriers prevented a unified Greece. The sea became a vital part of the Greek society. There were hundreds of bays, skilled sailors, and trade of olive oil, wine, and marble for grains, metals, and ideas, technology, and philosophies was common trade items. The Greeks were able adopt the Phoenician alphabet, which later become the basis for all western alphabets. It also promoted democracy. Although the sea encouraged trade, the mountainous terrain enabled absolute rulers to gain power, ultimately leading to the demise of the Ancient Greek democracy and thus creating war mongers. Although the sea encouraged trade, the mountainous terrain enabled absolute rulers to gain power, ultimately leading to the demise of the Ancient Greek democracy and thus creating war mongers.

they all liked men and made children together

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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emphasis on the human forms

Crete is a Greek island and Greece is a member of the European Union, so Crete is in the European Union.

alexander the great and he was from the athens i know this trust me

'Acropolis' means high place. The acropolis was built in Athens on a large hill looking over the city.

Chivalry was the code of honor among the nobility in the late Middle Ages, and today the code of chivalry is closely linked with knighthood. Medieval notions of "chivalry" had some important differences from how we think of "chivalry" today, though. For instance, chief among the medieval tenants of chivalry was loyalty to one's liege-lord (this was essential to the feudal system in medieval society), but some of the more romantic notions, such as a man draping his cloak over a mud puddle for a lady to walk over, were unheard of and would have been considered totally absurd back then.

He was a leader of Athens who reformed the Athenian political and legal system. Although his reforms were much needed, the penalties he brought in were severe in order to establish acceptance of law and order. The word Draconian is used today to describe very severe actions.

Alexander the Great. There where other kings before him in Greece, but they where all kings of their perticular country. Alexander was the first King to bring all the countries in Greece under one ruler.

Several European countries joined the Western Allies at different times during World War 2. In total 19 European countries joined the Allies from 1939 to 1945. The very first European countries to join the Allies and which were the original Allies were Poland, United Kingdom and France. The alliances between these three original allies pre-date WWII. After WWII other countries joined the Allies: Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands (these four countries joined as "governments in exile"), Greece, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Later on during the war other European countries joined the Western Allied Forces: Italy, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, San Marino, Albania, Hungary and Finland which was the last European country to join the Allies during the war in 1945 as co-belligerent.

The USA joined the Western Allies in 1941 after the attack to Pearl Harbour.

They were generally cremated and their ashes stored in an urn.

Because the communists and monarchy- wanting citizens of Greece both wanted government power