How Did Western Civilization And Culture Influence Ancient Greek Culture

Ancient Greeks thought themselves as “one people.” Greek people had the same religion, language and culture. Young men and women from the Greek city states were sent compete in the Olympic Games. Ancient Greek was divided into several independent city states (Polis). Even though Greeks thought themselves as one people, politically they defended their independence from each other. Relation between Greeks and Phoenicians increased during ninth century B.C.E. Geeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabets and on the other side Phoenicians made a way to the regeneration of lost art of Greeks known as seafaring. Greeks were copying Phoenician’s designs for merchant vessels which allowed them to set their trading ventures on their own. The socio economic development promoted further by ever growing Greek population placed heavy demand on the resources of mountainous country with efficient yet limitation agriculture.
The Greeks were able to keep their Empire and culture alive through trade, art and government. The city states allowed competitive trade among the separate polis. There were three major states of Greece Empire Sparta, Athens and Ionian city of Miletus. Blending of culture happens between all three city states while still being one overall culture. Since the Bronze Age Athenian liked to possess that their city had been a great metropolis. When Athenians came together to form polis theirs was distinctly agricultural economy. The profit that

was earned by the aristocrats through trade, all was reinvested in the land on the Attic peninsula. Throughout the journey and hard work of setting up a polis Athens were given populist government than any other Greek polis and had strengthened its political institutions. Athens became the principle exporter of olive oil, wine, and pottery in the Greek