Geography had it’s pros and cons on ancient Greece and really changed Greek history over all. Here are four ways geograthy changed ancient Greece. The first good thing geography did to ancient Greece was that Greece was a rough country and had lots of rocky terrain and mountains so Greeks mostly sailed to get around and also traded across the Mediterranean‚ Aegean‚ and Black seas‚ therefore making the water a “highway” for ancient Greece. The second good thing about the Greeks Geography is that
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806 Compare and Contrast Essay: Ancient Egypt and Greece There are many mysteries to life‚ ancient civilizations created religion to explain these mysteries. Many ancient civilizations believed in religions that worshiped more than one god or goddess‚ this is called polytheism. Both the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Greeks practiced polytheism. For both ancient civilizations religion was an important part of daily life. Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Greeks had similar creation stories
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Ancient Greece influenced our western civilization in many ways. It produced philosophers‚ scientist‚ mathematicians‚ artists‚ writers and architects in our civilization. As Americans we have learned and took on many things from the Greeks. Greeks were one of the most advanced cultures. Having theaters‚ Olympics‚ myths and many other things. Our civilization today is still completely interested with folklore and folk tales. Today we don’t believe in more than one God unlike the Greek culture they
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Plague of the 160s CE‚ it had a population of about 60 million and a population density of about 16 persons per square kilometer. In contrast to the European societies of the classical and medieval periods‚ Rome had unusually high urbanization rates. During the 2nd century CE‚ the city of Rome had more than one million inhabitants. No Western city would have as many again until the 19th century. Background
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differences between the ancient civilizations of Greece and Egypt in term of education system‚ art and geographical regions. II. The Egyptian and Greece are different in term of their education system. A. Egyptian education system 1. age entering to school 2. subjects they learn in school 3. girls from wealthy family enter the school B. Greece education system 1. age of entering school 2. subjects they were taught 3. girls learn to do house work III. The Egyptian and Greece are different in term
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unusual in Rome‚ bobbing in the middle of the group. Romulus had led a dozen legionnaires and veterans in an ambush against a small group of Visigoth troops. However‚ there was a large group of enemy troops nearby‚ and it quickly became clear they had to retreat. It took a long time‚ but they eventually lost the Visigoths. All of the
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ANCIENT GREEK CONTRIBUTIONS DBQ This task is based on the accompanying documents. Some of these documents have been edited for the purpose of this task. This task is designed to test your ability to work with historic documents. As you analyze the documents‚ take into account both the source of the document and the author’s point of view Historical Context Many of the roots of Western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. They made long lasting contributions in areas of
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Cleopatra knew that she was to be taken to Rome as a captive and that she would not be able to manipulate Octavian‚ so she asked for time to prepare herself and was granted it. Cleopatra then poisoned herself- which is believed to have been by using an asp‚ but most scholars today believe it to be an Egyptian Cobra- and died shortly after. Octavian then had Cleopatra’s son‚ Caesarion‚ murdered and the children that she had with Antony were brought to Rome and were raised by Octavia‚ ending the Ptolemaic
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citizenship. An early incarnation of this sentiment can be found in Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412 B.C.)‚ the founding father of the Cynic movement in Ancient Greece. Of Diogenes it is said: "Asked where he came from‚ he answered: ’I am a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês)’".[1] This was a ground-breaking concept‚ because the broadest basis of social identity in Greece at that time was either the individual city-state or the Greeks (Hellenes) as a group. The Tamil poet Kaniyan Poongundran wrote in Purananuru
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Life in Ancient Greece: Spartan men and women Bernice Gelin Professor Shepardson November 18‚ 2008 World History The ancient city of Sparta has had a lasting impression on the world today. Sparta was a model of discipline‚ conformity‚ militarism‚ and virtue. It was a prominent city state‚ but its society was unique from typical life in Greece. Sparta was a military state‚ believing in having only the strong and not the weak to maintain the
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