Greek History

Greek History

The Ancient Greek civilization was located on the same land Greece is now, Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, South Italy, and Sicily. It is surrounded mountains and in the north by water. The Ionian and the Aegean seas, together with natural islands and bays, gave the Greeks the opportunity to develop their high level of commerce and their rich culture. The mountains, which surrounded Greece, gave them the advantage of being well protected.

From earlier times, the Geeks lived in independent settlements, and they were isolated from one another. Later, these settlements grew into bigger cities and/or formed city-states. The Greek civilization has made great contributions in many areas to western society. Greek Scientists have had revolutionary idea that changed its, and our, future dramatically. They also showed that organization and individuality plays a big roll in forming the perfect empire.

First I will talk about Sparta, which also played a great part in the history of ancient Greece. Sparta was one of the most powerful city states. They took over Messnia and used the land wisely, by making a government using the Code of Lycurgus. The Spartan women were given much more freedom, thus every person had a role and part in the flourishment of their city. The Spartans represented strength, freedom and discipline. They built a great city state well to protect themselves against from revolts and attackers, such as the Persians.

Athens, a city state that valued freedom a lot, was filled by people who were open to new ideas and wanted to be educated to become more intelligent. They were against violence and treid to avoid force. Two leading roles of Athens were, Solon and Cleisthenes who changed laws to improve their city and give the people more freedom. They let more male citizens vote and begin a new legal system. Cleisthenes invented lots of laws that gave the government full time democracy.

In 520 B.C., Persian armies attacked and conquered some Greek land and Greek people. The Athenians wanted back their hard worked for freedom so the aided the Greeks of Ionia against the unpreventable Persian threat. As the war escalated, over 7,000 Spartans came forward to defend a crucial point, against Xerxes, the Persian leader at that time. The Spartans fought well but could not keep back the immense army of the Persian King. To bring this hor...

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...ountry will do good and people will listen and be more open to new ideas that the government might have in store for them.

If the Government would just start to realise that they should be doing what’s best for its people and country then there would be much less war, fights, and unnecessary discussions in this world. Other Governments that have found out about this should pressure or convince these ignorant people.

Overall, Democracy is good for all of us because we get what we want in the end. There will always be decisions we do not like but this way these unwanted decisions will have been made by the majority of the people’s people.

The Greeks definitely were a great folk, they are still highly respected by many but studied by every school. There is absolutely no person on this earth that has never heard a story about Hercules or about Zeus. There is no person that has not been fascinated by the Greek Myths, Architecture and/or Warfare. There people that lived so far back in time are inspiring architects and historians still today. The Greeks have not stopped influencing our lives and never will. A great Empire, to a great epoch but sadly it does not exist today.