The Golden Age of Greece History
Learn about Greece and it's exciting treasures
The city states of ancient Greece
Greece's geography was very influential on its communities of people. instead of one big empire Greece was divided up into various city states due to all of its islands, isolating people from each other restricting them to come together and unify. Athens and Sparta are a couple of the many city states Greece had.
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Athens' government
Athens' government was the first of its kind to have a democratic structure. Athenians invented democracy. They came up with the idea that all people men and women should have the right to participate in there own government and have a say in it.
Alexander The Great
Alexander The Great wad the greatest militay genius of ancient Greece. Born in 356 B.C. He let his army into victory taking all the lamd and conquering all the apposed him at young ages.
Archimedes
Archimedes an astronomer born in 287 B.C. he was schooled in pure mathematics. He spent most of his life in Sicily making great discoveries and becoming knows as a great astronomer.
Homer
His name meaning "he who can't see" many historians believed that Homer was blind. Homer was a great poet that did not write he poems down but narrated them to scholars who wrote them down.
The U.S. And Greece
How Ancient Greece Impacts Us Today
The U.S. took alot from the culture of Ancient Greece. The architecture government and all sorts of reminders of Greece are in our society. Even how we run our governyment as a democracy came from Greece in Athens from there government of democracy. Our building today have an echoe of greece culture all around them. We learned much from Ancient Greece.
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