Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were very similar civilizations but also very different. While one place did this, the other did that. They believed in different things but did some of the same things. For example, they both had some form of art happening within all of them, but the Greeks wanted perfection whereas the Romans want real life people. The Greeks statues were of perfect people. The Romans statutes contained all the flaws of real people.
The ancient Greek civilizations were colonized. They established some colonies around the coastline of the Mediterranean sea. Greeks had a lot of different kinds of governments, because there were many different city-states in ancient Greece. The people there were very religious. They worshipped many Gods who seemed to have human like qualities to them. Greeks used myth to tell stories or explain different events at the time. Ancient Greece ran as a democracy, but Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies,oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies. Greece was building with many city-states along with the falling of the Minoan and Mycenaean. …show more content…
Ancient Rome was a single unified politically and grew out of the city of Rome. It was much more powerful than Greece, with possible exception the short-lived empire of Alexander. Families living in the Roman Empire took many different forms. In general, there was more equality between men and women under Roman law than there was under the Greeks or under Islamic law. In 500 BC, Rome began to become republic, the people in charge were two men called consuls. Women were not allowed to be consuls. Theses people controlled the army, and they decided whether to start a war and how much taxes to collect and what the laws
The ancient Greek civilizations were colonized. They established some colonies around the coastline of the Mediterranean sea. Greeks had a lot of different kinds of governments, because there were many different city-states in ancient Greece. The people there were very religious. They worshipped many Gods who seemed to have human like qualities to them. Greeks used myth to tell stories or explain different events at the time. Ancient Greece ran as a democracy, but Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies,oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies. Greece was building with many city-states along with the falling of the Minoan and Mycenaean. …show more content…
Ancient Rome was a single unified politically and grew out of the city of Rome. It was much more powerful than Greece, with possible exception the short-lived empire of Alexander. Families living in the Roman Empire took many different forms. In general, there was more equality between men and women under Roman law than there was under the Greeks or under Islamic law. In 500 BC, Rome began to become republic, the people in charge were two men called consuls. Women were not allowed to be consuls. Theses people controlled the army, and they decided whether to start a war and how much taxes to collect and what the laws