The polis is like a modern day city or town‚ but unlike today only men were granted citizenship. I think the polis was so significant because of how harshness of the environment. Since they couldn’t sustain large population like Middle Eastern Civilizations‚ all the citizens of Greece had to work together; the polis gave them a reason to be proud‚ and they tried their best to make sure it succeeded. The hoplite or solider was a major part in the development of the polis. The different Greek city-states
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The Battle of Marathon happened in 490 BC and lead to the rise of the city of Athens and the fall of the Persian Empire. The cause of the battle was the The Ionian Revolt which happened in 499-493 BC‚ the story is that Histiaeus didn’t like his long exile beyond the Tigris and wanted to go back to Ionia. He sent a message to Aristagoras on the head of a slave to tell him to start a rebellion. The Ionians got help from the Athenians but they saw the revolt was going to fail so left after they had
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events and important advancements‚ which provided the basis for how we live today. Greece was not always one united country‚ Instead it was made up of Hundreds of city-states including as Athens‚ Corinth and Sparta. Each city-state was ruled by a single leader called a tyrant. During the fifth century BC‚ Athens became the first city-state to introduce democracy. Religion played a big part in everyday life in Ancient Greece. The Greeks worshipped many gods and goddesses. They believed that the
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Acropolis in Athens. The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC‚ and despite the enormous damage it has sustained over the centuries‚ it still communicates the ideals of order and harmony for which Greek architecture is known. In the Ionic order Erechtheum the temple from the middle classical period of Greek art and architecture‚ built on the Acropolis of Athens between 421 and 405BC. . Acropolis in Greek means "The Sacred Rock‚ the high city". All around the world the Acropolis of Athens is known
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ATHENS In Athens the popular viewpoint of the time was that the state and its government were set up to benefit the individual citizen. The training of boys‚ both physical and mental‚ should be for citizenship and for living‚ not just for warfare. Such education involved the cultivation of the mind even more than the body‚ and had as its goals the attainment of character‚ taste‚ and‚ above all‚ sophrosyne‚ or patience‚ moderation‚ and good behavior in word‚ thought‚ and daily actions. In Athens
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QUESTIONS FOR HERODOTUS’ THE HISTORIES I. Who is Herodotus’s intended audience? Why was it written? A. His intended audience was the Greeks. B. It was written to tell the story of the Pelopensisan War C. Written to cover the conquests of Cyrus as he takes over much of the known world by ruling the Persian Empire. D. Herodotus was half Greek and half Persian E. He intended his work to undermine Hellenic ethnocentricity -- to open the Greek mind to to the rich diversity of the surrounding
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Andrew Makarian History 105 - 1002 Essay 2 In the history of western civilization were there any significant changes in the roles of women and in how these were defined? Women: cant live with them. Cant live without them. An old adage that pokes fun‚ yet is telling in its statement about how men view women. This sense of incompatibility curtails the differential roles men and women have played throughout history. The separation of sexes into distinct roles has inherently made them unequal
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the symbol of Athenian naval success? a. The gunboat b. The trireme c. The astrolabe d. The rowers e. The lateen sail Spar 3.Sparta became a highly militarized society primarily because a. they feared an uprising by the helots. b. they sought to recreate the far-flung empire of the Assyrians. c. repeated raids by Athens forced Spartans to adopt defensive measures. d. significant mineral wealth‚ which allowed them to support a large army. e. Spartan society was dominated
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treatment of women in Mesopotamian culture differs greatly from that of Greek culture‚ as well as within Greece‚ between Lacedaemon and Athens; despite this‚ gender inequality was still present in each culture at some level. Of these three areas of the ancient world‚ Lacedaemon indisputably had the most progressive model for social structure‚ with Mesopotamia close behind. Athens‚ which seems like it would have the most liberal model for society‚ actually had the highest level of gender inequality. In ancient
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“Thucydides: Method of Historical Inquiry” Thucydides‚ one of the great historians‚ recorded several years of war between Sparta and Athens. “History of the Peloponnesian War‚” in which he was the writer‚ used different methods of investigating and writing his history. He combined several sources into one fascinating voice that is his own. Thucydides methods included balance‚ accuracy and objectivity‚ and how he reached his findings that makes it an historical classification. One method would
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