The Expansion Of Ancient Greece

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Flourished in antiquity around the 1900 B.C.E the Greek civilization expanded. The expansion helped gain access from Crete, Egypt, and the Anatolian peninsula of their lands for the Greeks. The Greeks were known for the creation of the Scientific Method that is still known of and used today. Scientific Method is a method that is used to observe, measure, experiment and is the formation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Alexander impressed the Greek culture everywhere as he continued to take over more lands. Philip II Macedonia had the Greek culture move into one Greek political entity made up of 300 or more individual city-states.

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