After the Persian invasion was defeated, the Greeks were free to resume their internal fighting, culminating in what is now called the Peloponnesian War, which wrought great distruction throughout the Greek world: its successful conclusion by Sparta's Peloponnesian league over Athen's empire was made possible by Persian support. The weakened Greek states continued to weaken themselves paving the way for rising Macedonia to dominate mainland Greece and offer its king Phillip II the prospect of taking over the Persian empire to end any future Persian threat. His death left this project to his son Alexander. Alexander's takeover of the Persian empire set the scene for Greek culture to spread from Spain to today's Pakistan.
Alexander's victorious progression through the Persian Empire was followed by a swarm of Greek carpetbaggers taking advantage of the commercial opportunities on offer. In consequence a form of Greek called Koine became the commercial lingua franca of the Middle East, overlaying the general lingua fanca of Aramaic.
Alexander and his successors also had an inexhaustable appetite for soldiers, and the fit male population of mainland Greece flowed to Asia and Egypt. The population of mainland Greece was so depleted (from this and later internal and Roman wars) that in the 1st Century CE the historian Plutarch commented the you could not find 3,000 men-at-arms in all of Greece.
The Hellenistic kingdoms (those set up by Alexanders' successors in Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt) also used the Greek city-state model and Greek culture to establish control, order and social standards within their kingdoms. This civilising influence provided a veneer of political and cultural influence and stability which lasted until the progressive takeover by Islamic conquerors from 7th Century CE until the fall of Constantinople and end of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th Century.
And the Byzantine Empire was in fact the eastern Roman Empire - when the western Roman Empire was overrun from the 5th Century onwards, it lived on in the east - the Byzantines thought of themselves as Romans, but spoke Greek and continued Greek culture.
In religious influence, this widespread Greek culture readily provided the host for mystery cults as well as the formal state religions. Several such cults flourished - those of Mithras, Isis, Jesus etc. Emperor Constantine, although a Mithras initiate, selected Christianity as his state religion because it had a geographic heirarchy which he could use as a unifying and control tool throughout his empire.
It made it hard to grow some types of crops back then and ancient Greece was a peninsula(look it up)
It made it hard to grow some types of crops back then and ancient Greece was a peninsula(look it up)
Ancient Greece doesnt exist anymore. Thats why its called ancient:) Life in normal Greece is, well, normal!
In ancient Greece, regions were organized into city-states.
They did household work. They were in charge of taking care of their children. Women had a sorry life in Ancient Greece.
food homes and life and of corse chikens
This does not belong in the category "Ancient Greece".
There are many writings from ancient Greece. There were many artifacts and images from the time. All of these give us insights into life in ancient Greece.
acropolis
Democracy
Ancient Greece did not expand into the Persian Empire. Greece was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states, the ones in Asia Minor being inside the Persian Empire. It was the Macedonians under Alexander the Great who expanded into and took over the Persian Empire. Alexander's successors divided the Empire into kingdoms of their own (Egypt, Syria-Mesopotamia etc , and these lasted a couple of hundred years until the expanding Roman Empire absorbed them.
it was a free life just because they were the athletes