Greece

Contributions of the Ancient Greeks Ancient greece was one of the most technologically advanced societies during their time. Many of their ideas are still being used to this day. Some of these include, democracy, theatre, and the Olympic Games. Greece was one of many helpful ancient societies. One of the many ways that ancient Greece contributed to society now. One way is with democracy. Democracy was first invented in ancient Athens by Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes. Unlike the…

Greek democracy was able to coexist with military needs and divisions in social classes by providing people with jobs and allowing people to have a say in things. First, due to the democracy, the lower society classed people were able to get a job in the military. It used to be that only the rich people who could maintain a horse would be able to join, but with the new democracy, the less richer people would be able to buy the sword, the armour, and the sheild. Now, if you were poorer than those…

add on and create many more complex ideas and inventions. The priests of Delphi are also an example of ancient Greeks that have created new ways of thinking and analyzing data that are used today. Throughout the documentary, “What the Ancients Knew: Greece” all of the people stated above are mentioned and have intrigued me with their insights of the world around them. Wither if it was proving that nature had its own laws, creating the principle of numbers, using proportions to establish new…

stretched from Greece all the way to India. Although Alexander’s empire expansion campaign was rather brief, it nevertheless had a major global impact as it resulted in the spread of Greek culture and ideas over the entire expanse, ranging from the Eastern Mediterranean region to Asia. Historians commonly refer to this era in Ancient Greece as the Hellenistic Period. The term Hellenistic is derived from the Ancient Greek root word Hellas, which was used in reference to the territory of Greece. …

The religion of ancient Greece influenced the art and architecture of the civilisation, which can still be seen today. The religion of ancient Greece is where they worshiped a god that influenced there lifestyle the most, for example if you were a fisherman you would pray to Poseidon the god of the sea. They would build temples such as the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion to please the gods (Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, 15/11/15). They also built statues to represent gods in human form. Some of…

An individual living in Greece in the 5th century B.C.E would be better off as a citizen of Athens than as a citizen of Sparta. (better transition)During this time, Athens was swimming in cash. Where did they get all this money from? Athens got all of it from the Delian League. At first the league was created so that if Persia chose to ever attack again Greece would be ready. City-states apart of the Delian League would have to give contributions. This would typically be either money, men,…

Thankfully that’s what this paper is all about. I, Jacob Kroeger, will briefly argue how Rome (and Greece) has impacted Politics, Language, modern day religion. Politics and Government. The Government, laws, and political philosophies that is found in the United States derive and find its origins in the Greco-Roman world. The first, major democracy in the history of the world was Athens, Greece (even though there is a possibility it wasn’t the first…

Greece and Mesopotamia are two very different civilizations. One difference was the government. Greece was the first democracy in history while Mesopotamia had a theocracy. Another difference was the fact that citizens had a say in government in Greece. Now while that ties into Democracy at the time no one else had thought of anything like it. However, even though they were different these two ancient powerhouses did have some similarity. One similarity was th belief in more then one god. At one…

Classical Greece (600-200 B.C.) is often credited with ideas of government advancements as well as philosophy achievements. Ideals of freedom began emerging from the polis. The polis held much more importance than a location; rather it was the center of humanistic thought. The time period offered rationalism, humanism, and democracy based from the polis influence. As a result, both humanism and rationalism lead to the widely accepted belief that the human mind contained the highest and some of…

Ancient Greece was comprised of small city-states that had many different forms of political government. The country was not unified it was organized in a polis – Greek name for city-states and most cities were very small fewer than 10,000 residents. Two of the most powerful political governments were Athenian and Sparta. Athenian was interested in ruling by the people while Sparta was built on military. Each political government was formed and ruled by different Greek political structures.…