Classical Period DBQ Imagine you are driving past the front of the White House. You notice the tall and elaborate columns at the front of the White House. You think about the architecture behind these swirling Ionic columns and where this kind of style started. This architecture started in ancient Greece and is still used today. Today, our modern world uses many innovations from the ancient Eastern hemisphere that influence our lives today, such as architecture, transportation and the calendar. To start off, columns were used to decorate many important buildings in ancient Greece. We still use them today on important buildings too. The Greeks invented many kinds of columns like doric,