Philip II of Macedon

Greek Famous People Ancient Greece influenced the modern world in many ways. Ancient Greece had some of the best minds ever. A lot of the scientific information we know today came from ancient Greece like our solar system revolves around the Sun, and the Earth is round. There also was a great deal of philosophers from ancient Greece that continue to influence the world thousands of years after their death. Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of…

Phillip’s son would later become a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. The Philosopher sparked and spurred Alexander’s interest in politics, medicine, philosophy, rhetoric and literature. Not only this, but Aristotle gifted him with the knowledge and practice of virtue, whom would later incorporate virtue into his life…

The believed origin date for the first Olympiad is 776 BC however it is has been the subject of intense debates for historians for a long time (Spivey 2004, 206). When trying to come to a date for the first Olympiad a decision was made by fixing a list of victors at Olympia, after which they counted backward in quadrennial units (Miller 2004, 20). The main concern with trying to figure out the origin date is if it is accuracy for the emergence of Greek athletics. Scholars have looked for the…

Major Players Socrates Many people knew of Socrates in ancient Greece but few knew the reach his teachings had and how it would impact the world. We don't know much from Socrates himself, many of the informational texts we have about his life were written by his students and playmakers; Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Many of the elders Socrates questioned would abandon their aspirations and create schools to teach and spread the ideology of philosophy. Plato, his most famous student, became…

This is a decent time when to pull back and take a gander at the time of farming developments (ca. 3500 B.C.E.–ca. 1750 C.E.) The most conspicuous extensive scale incline in this period of mankind 's history was the globalization of development. The primary wave—the First Civilizations— was at that point worldwide in the first place Civilizations ended up being delicate and helpless Mesopotamian city-states were consumed into bigger domains Indus Valley, Central Asian, and Norte Chico human…

and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…

Same-sex marriage is one of the most controversial yet sensitive topics that have been discussed around the world. Politicians often hold debates on this subject trying to decide whether it should be legal for same sexes to be married. It is often viewed as being wrong by religious people because marriage is portrayed as a woman and man uniting, not woman to woman or man to man. Although there are many people say that banning same-sex marriage is an act of discrimination against homosexual…