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=**toc The Ancient Greek Civilization 2**=


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**Geography**
**Map of Greece**
 * Ancient Greece is a land located in the southeast part of Europe near the Nile river and Africa. Today, it is still called Greece. A good effect that the geographic setting had on this civilization was that the Nile River made the land beside it good for farming.** **A bad effect that the geographic setting had on this civilization is that it had too much mountains that the Ancient Greek Civilization was isolated from the other civilizations. It didn't have any boats, so they can't even sail across the seas. The large bodies of water nearby Greece are the Nile River, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Sea of Crete, Ionian Sea.**

**Time period**
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 * Ancient** **Greece emerged as a civilization at 8300 BC, after the fall of the Mycenaean civiProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 zation. The Ancient Greek Civilization started with the Dark ages. Greece was at their peak at the time of 500 B.C. It is still standing today as the Third Hellenic republic%Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 at the Modern Greek Age. However, this is the Modern Greek Age, not the Ancient Greek Civilization. The Ancient Greek Civilization fell at 30 BC with the death of Cleopatra.**

Government

 * The type of government that the Ancient Greek civilization had was a democratic government. A democratic government is a government where the people vote for the person they think can run their civilization, which is the Ancient Greek Civilization, the best out of everyone. The laws and rules kept the Greeks in order. Around 620 BC, a lawgiver named Draco wrote the first law of Greece. The law he made established exile for a homicide penalty, and it was the only one of Draco's laws that Solon kept when he became a lawgiver. Solon created lots of new laws that fit into the four categories of Greek Law.

The court of Greece is called the supreme Court of Greece. Women in Greece didn't have rights. They can't go to school,own property or go to play without their husband's permission. Basically, they can do nothing. The things woman can do is keep the house clean, command slaves, and raise children. Men get to go to school for ages 6 to 14, and start their early responsibilities for ages 14 to 16. They get to command wives and give them permission to do a lot of things.**

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**Rise and Fall**
The golden age was when the two societies, Athens and Sparta, came together after the Persia war. This brought the ancient world to its heights in art, culture and they realized they needed to become one nation instead of separate city states. ** **
 * The first Greek speaking tribes are thought to have arrived in the Greek mainland between the late third and the first half on the second millennium BC. They didn't conquer any other civilization because they didn't want a war and wanted their country to be a peaceful one. They liked to be left alone. The only problem is, the others don't think so. The result? Ancient Greece was conquered twice by Macedonia and Rome. The golden age of Ancient Greece was the time Athens and Sparta came into one huge nation. This brought the Ancient world to it's height**
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 * The Greeks could of stayed in power because If the Romans had not conquered the Greece the Greece could of still be a big civilization . The Romans had wanted the land they had before Ancient Greece was conquered by them selves the Romans

**Religion **
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 * The Greeks believed in the Greek Gods. The people worshiped the god who was named, the god of all gods. The list of all gods are**
 * **Zeus the god of all gods**
 * **Poseidon the god of the sea**
 * **Hades the god of the underworld**
 * **Hestia is the god of hearth and home**
 * **Hera the wife of Zeus and protector of all married woman**
 * **Ares the god of war**
 * **Athena was the warrior and god of strategy**
 * **Apollo the god of light and music**
 * **Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty**
 * **Hermesthe the messenger**
 * **Aremis the goddess of all wild things huntsman of the gods**
 * **Hephaestus the god of fire and blacksmiths**


 * The Greeks where polytheistic. They believed in many Gods. they where the Greek gods. The Greek Gods lived on MT. Olympus. Each God or Goddess had there own individual powers for Zeus could control the weather and he had lightning bolts and Ares could control peoples minds and make them have wars and each god had a special power like that.** **No the religion was not linked with there government because not everyone believed in the Greek Gods but many people did but they did not let there religion over power the way some people ran the Greek society.** **No they did not believe in life after death. They believed that if they had not committed any bad things like murder or stealing that they would go to a wonderful place that would be paradise. They could never be harmed in.**

** Economy **

 * The role that trade had in ancient Greece was a big part of their civilization.** **The major trading products were olive oil, wine, food, and even slaves. Items them received were perfumes from Arabia, cheese and pork from Sicily, wheat, barley, glass from Egypt, ivory from Ethiopia, and rugs from Carthage. The location on where ancient Greece was affected their ability to trade because it was hard for the ancient Greeks to get to other civilizations.

It was hard for the Greeks to trade before boats were invented. The reason why it was hard for ancient Greece to trade before boats were invented because they were isolated away from other civilizations because of the mountains. Ancient Greece was isolated from other civilizations because when they had to travel by foot it was hard for them to get through the mountains and it was easier when they had traveled by boat because they could have gone around the mountains.**

** Technology **

 * The Ancient Greeks made the coins, maps, the thermometer, the tumber lock, the hula hoop, and more.** **Yes, they had a calender. In fact, people say it is the most confusing calender out of all the ancient calenders.** **Yes. They used Oxen, mules, sickles, etc. In Ancient Greece, Irrigation was indispensable (can't happen without it).** **The Greeks used three ways for ancient architecture: the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian order.

The Doric= It is the simplest of the orders, characterized by short, faceted, heavy columns with plain, round capitals and no base. With a height that is only four to eight times its diameter, the columns are the most squat of all orders.

The Ionic= The Ionic order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known Aeolic order. It is distinguished by slender, fluted pillars with a large base and two opposed //volutes// (also called //scrolls//) in the echinus of the capital.

The Corinthian= The Corinthian order is the most ornate of the Greek orders, characterized by a slender fluted column having an ornate capital decorated with two rows of acanthus leaves and four scrolls. It is commonly regarded as the most elegant of the three orders. The shaft of the Corinthian order%2**