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Culture
Lysistrata was a play written by Aristophanes. Lysistrata is a play where the women get mad that the men keep going to war and end up withholding sex from them until they stop going to war. This is a comedy. It is funny. -
431
Culture
Fighting between the citry-states, known as the Peloponnesian, breaks out. It bring famine and devastation to the cities. Rural areas and islands are also affected. Athens eventually loses the war to heavily armed Spartans. -
431
Government
Fighting between the city-states, known as the Peloponnesian War, breaks out. It brings famine and devastation to cities, rural areas and islands. Athens eventually loses this war to the heavily armed Spartans. -
447
Geography
The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the maiden goddess Athena. The people of Athens considered their patron deity. Its construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC -
Jan 1, 600
Religion
The Oddessy, a poem about Odysseus' journey home to Ithika. THis included his battle against the cyclops. It also described the rest of his journeys and how the gods tested him. -
Jan 1, 600
Economy
The greek coin is intorduced.it was a long time before the government actually decided that the coin should be used for currency. Before the coin they used livestock and women. -
Jan 1, 750
Economy
Trade was a fundamental aspect of the ancient Greek world and following territorial expansion. An increase in population movements, and innovations in transport, goods could be bought, sold. Food, raw materials, and manufactured goods were not only made available to Greeks for the first time but the export of such classics as wine, olives, and pottery helped to spread Greek culture widen. The silver road was their main way of doing this. -
Jan 1, 776
Culture
During this time the first Olympic Games were being held. The games were a tribute to the God's. They were also closesly related to the practices of the Cult of Zeus -
Jan 1, 1250
Religion
at this time, Helen of Troy was Engaged to Menelaus. then the goddes of love, Aphrodite, made her fall in love with Paris. This enraged Agamemnon and Menelaus's brother . they led an assult on their city for 10 years. -
Geography
At this time the Destruciton of the Minoan palaces. it also destroyed the settlement of Akrotiri, and the Therea Grave Circle B at Mycenae. -
Geography
At this time in history the minoan settlements were destroyed. The Minoans were a brilliant people who were great warriors and very smart. Even with their ingenuity their buildings fell to the Santorini Volcano eruption. -
Government
at this time Philip of Macedon Conquered all of Greece. He acomplished this feat wit a huge army that was pretty skilled. What he did, was he basically marched his army all acorss Greece, conquering all in his path. this was important because it was a MAJOR swing in power. -
Science and Technology
King Leonidas leads 300 spartans into battle with the persians. This war was called the Battle of Thermopylae. He fought this war so that the main force could escape. Xerxes was the commander of the persians. -
Government
At this time, the Greek cities battled the Persains at sea, and won. Then the city-state of Athens becomes the head of a group of city-states known as the Delian League. it is formed to protect Greece's mainland from overseas invaders. -
Economics
The Colossus of Rhodes was finished being built. This is one of the 7 wonders of the world. It was 500 ft tall. It was the entrance to the city of Rhodes -
Culture
Sophocles was an ancient playwrite. He wrote a play called Oedipus the King, also known by the Latin title, "Oepdipus Rex." In this play Oedipus kills the king and marries the widdowed queen. He later finds out that the king is his father and the queen is his mother and stabs his eyes out with a comb. -
Science and Technology
Thales of Miletus predicted a solar ecplipse. This change from daylight to darkness had been foretold to the Ionians by Thales of Miletus. How Thales foretold the eclipse is not known but there is strong opinion that he was able to perform this remarkable feat through knowledge of a cycle known as the Saros, with some attributing his success to use of the Exeligmos cycle. The war was not effected. -
Science & Technology
The Greeks developed extensive silver mines at Laurium, the profits from which helped to support the growth of Athens as a city-state. It involved mining the ore in underground galleries, washing the ores and smelting it to produce the metal. Elaborate washing tables still exist at the site using rain water held in cisterns and collected during the winter months. Mining also helped to create currency by conversion of the metal into coinage. -
Government
At this time, the people known as Minoans were the first major civilization. They lived peacefully with the surrounding countries. they were the first Europeans to develop a writing system. -
Geography
at this time, the earliest fortifacations that were found, were at Dimini, Greece. there were some of the earliest buildings in the region.
thisd picture is important because it captures how long the fortifacations have been there. -
Religion
Hellenistic religion is any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of the people who lived under the influence of ancient Greek culture during the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire. There was much continuity in Hellenistic religion: the Greek gods continued to be worshipped, and the same rites were practiced as before. Magic was practiced widely, and these too, were a continuation from earlier times. -
Religion
The very first "Megaron House" was unearthed at Sesclo, that was located in ancient Greece. this was the first of very many "Megaron Houses" that would be built in acncient Greece. -
Economy
At this time there was evidence starint to erupt about evidence of a food producing economy. there was also seafaring beggining in the mainland of Greece and the Aegean.
this picture is important because it shows how the Grreks first began seafaring. -
Science & Technology
7250 BCE
the earliest eviidence of burials found. they found it in Franchthi cave the Argolid, Greece.
this npicture is important because it was the buliding blocks for the basic livings of the greece people.
