4.0: Greek Dark Ages or (Dark Age Greece) circa 1100 BCE - 900 BCE. URING THE START OF THIS HISTORICAL PERIOD IN CIRCA 1100 BCE‚ IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MYCENAEAN GREEK CIVILISATION WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF CONSIDERABLE TURMOIL. The various Mycenaean cities warred one another and many of these cities were destroyed and left abandoned and in ruins for many decades if not centuries. The large death toll from this fighting caused the population to decrease severely. It is believed that this state
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assembled an army and conquered his neighbor the Medes. Ten years after he defeats the Medes‚ Cyrus conquers the kingdom of Lydia‚ whose wealth was legendary. This brought the Persians to their first contact with the Greeks. The Greek settlements on the Ionian coast had been subjects of Lydia and had grown rich through trade.
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Greece The country of Greece is one of the oldest in the world‚ ranging back to 3‚000 B.C. when inhabitants settled in its lands; the ancient Greek language dates back even older by 500 years‚ in which the modern Greek language evolved from. Greece shaped the ancient and modern worlds as we know it‚ especially in the context of western civilization and thought‚ and with a direct impact on the governing concept of democracy. This paper will explore an outline of Greek history‚ its people‚ and
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The Athenian Empire‚ One of the Greatest Empires and One of the Fastest to go. The Athenian Empire‚ one of the most successful and greatest empires of all of Ancient period. From its rise from the unique way of living‚ its senate‚ and its agricultural and trading power‚ Athens became incredibly powerful‚ wealthy‚ and was the main power in the Ancient world. Not only was the Athenian empire strong in its culture and money making‚ its Navy was its strongest than any other power at the time. It
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the upper class. Their music was generally monophonic and accompanied themselves with an instrument like the lyre or drums. 4. What are the modes in Western music? Describe at least one mode in Western music. There are seven different modes: Dorian‚ Ionian‚ Phrygian‚ Lydian‚ Mixolydian‚ Aeolian‚ and Locrian. Dorian mode in C begins and ends on D. 5. What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music? Polyphonic music uses two or more independent melodies; whereas monophonic music has
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type of mode. Modes were used before the modern day scales that we are more familiar with. They were "a series of pitches in predefined order‚ with specific intervals between each pitch." Seven different modes were used to compose and play music: Ionian‚ Dorian‚ Phrygian‚ Lydian‚ Mixolydian‚ Aeolian‚ and Locrian. 5. What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music? Polyphonic music uses two or more independent melodies. Gradually‚ musicians and singers began to
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cavalry‚ and a naval force that consisted of 120 ships and 38‚000 sailors. Alexander invaded Asia when he crossed with his army at Hellespont. His first victory over the Persian army occurred at Granicus. Alexander continued down along the Ionian coast winning numerous battles and sieges. During the battle of Issus‚ Alexander’s army defeated Persia’s main army under the command of Darrius III. This defeat gave Alexander control of land as far as the Euphrates river in what is now modern
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Albania is a country in south-eastern Europe with surface area of 28748 km2. it boards Greece‚ Macedonia‚ Kosovo and Montenegro and is always 70 km by sea from Italy. Famous Albanian includes Gjergj Katriot Skandergeg and Mother Tereza. Having lived in different period and having done different works they are very close to each-other through their message on what Albania was and what it should be. Gjergj Kastrioti united Albanians in a struggle to resist an international power on behalf of the
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Compare and Contrast Bronze Age Greece to Classical Greece The civilizations that lived during these two distinct periods in Greek history share many similarities in economic‚ social‚ and religious ideology. But culturally as well as politically they had very different structures and ideals. The Mycenaean’s flourished as a civilization during the Bronze Age‚ between 1600-1100B.C.E. During their control of Greece the landscape consisted of tree covered hills and valleys. The hills divided the
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coda‚ and an outro. It provides a quaint and diatonic style where it helps produce a restrained flow of melody and harmony. With sneaky appearances of rhyming schemes‚ the band also uses alliteration based on similar consonants. The song includes a C Ionian mode also known commonly as the “major scale”. The song consists of tunes where they are mostly all pentatonic‚ where 1‚ 3‚ 5‚ 6 / C‚ D‚ E‚ G‚ A. When we review the melodies for both the verse and refrain‚ the final phrases are almost identical. The
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