Geography of Greece Name: Brandon Clarke Teacher: Ms.Harry Class/Period:10M/Period 1 Due Date:11/13/12 Outline I. Have you ever seen an country that’s is so interesting that you actually studied it? Well‚ this is the study of the country’s geography. Many different characteristics interacts with the geography of this country. For example‚ one characteristics can be the country’s natural features and resources. II. Physical Geography a.Greece is located in Southeastern Europe
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In his movie “Where to Invade Next” Moore squeezing a whole movie going from country to country looking for places where they do things better. These places include Italy‚ France‚ Finland‚ Slovenia‚ Germany‚ Portugal‚ Norway‚ Tunisia and Iceland. From labor perspective‚ Germany is a pretty good place to work in‚ as is Italy with its two hour lunches and 30 days of vacation annually. In terms of rules in society and legal behavior‚ drugs are legal and rehab is free in Portugal. In Norway‚ prison
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THE ROLE of WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE As the common idea of most societies even today‚ this is the world of men. Women are born in order to serve for their men. It was not much different in the times of ancient Greece. Women didn’t have any right to vote‚ serve on juries or own property. Women in ancient Greece couldn’t manage even their own property because they didn’t have right to spend money for the expenses of their household. They always forced to have a guardian beyond themselves. The guardian
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In ancient Greece‚ most jobs were done by slaves instead of free people. This was because the Greeks had no money to pay workers with (until the Archaic period)‚ and because they had no clocks (to measure how long somebody had worked). But it was also because it is cheaper to force people to work for you than it is to pay them. Most people who were slaves in Greece had been born free. They were sold into slavery by their parents when they were children‚ because their parents were too poor to take
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1 Mrs. Matone English 9-H 4 March 2013 In The Odyssey‚ Homer suggests that xenia is a very important feature of ancient Greece. Xenia is a kind of code of moral conduct for hospitality. For example‚ In The Odyssey there are times when reciprocation is given when traveling. Furthermore‚ the Greek people show xenia because Zeus demands hospitality from humans. Lastly there are many times when hospitality is shown to strangers even though the hosts do not know the travelers.
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As victors‚ the Spartans found themselves dominant in a Greece where polis was suspicious of polis and where‚ within each polis‚ faction disputed with faction. From Ionia‚ which the Spartans sold back to Persia as the price of their assistance‚ the Persians loomed once more as a threat to the whole Greek world. The new Macedonia in the north menaced the Greeks. Perhaps wiser or more vigorous leaders would have been able to create some sort of federation among the individual poleis that could have
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DBQ The ancient societies of Greece and China each produced a civilization remarkable for its time. Although these civilizations emerged nearly one thousand years apart‚ their philosophies were completely different‚ had various forms of governance‚ and had unique economic classes. First‚ the thoughts of the numerous Greek philosophers were absolutely different from those of the Chinese philosophers. Chinese philosophers believed that the individual was not as important as the kingdom was as a
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Greece has a mixed capitalistic economy with a large public sector that accounts about half of GDP. Besides‚ Greece is a major beneficiary of European Union aid‚ which equal to about 3.3% of annual GDP. In addition‚ Greece is an agricultural country and one of the poorest countries of the European Union with the second to lowest average income‚ after Portugal. In January 2002‚ Greece adopted the euro as its currency. The adoption provided Greece‚ formerly a high inflation risk country under drachma
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Ancient Greece is considered to have made some of the most influential art ever‚ their architecture being one of the utmost successful forms. Much of the Greeks’ art was meant to honor their gods‚ however‚ they were created in the same image of humans. The government sponsored a majority of the art in Greece and intended it to be for public display. The Greeks were always trying to reach excellence‚ which they found in art and took a great deal of pride in it. The architecture in Greece was very
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in the parthenon of ancient greece. Every one of them had an individual power. Almost every festival in ancient greece was some sort of celebration for a god or goddess. Hades was the god of the underworld. In ancient Rome‚ he was called Pluto. First‚ Hades was a very mysterious god that rarely left his kingdom. Because he was a very solitary person‚ nobody knew what he looked like. His name in greek means unseen‚ though he is described as being muscular‚ pale from staying in his underground
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