Greeks and Persains

Though out ancient history the Greeks ( google book) and the Persians( google book) fought. They had two very different cultures, however they both did wan to same thing. Both Civilisations wanted to conquer the world. The Persian Empire was very lager, however they wanted to make to even bigger. The Greeks wanted to make very one like them, they wanted speared their culture though out the world. Link

Greece was a upcoming place, it was besoming great in a very short amount of time. Greece was being coming a threat the the Persians. The Persians wanting to rule could not have Greece or Athens become more powerful them then. Leading up to many wars against the Greeks, In the Persian decide that they were going to conquer Greece. link

The Battle at Marathon was when the Persians come to take over Greece. Marathon was twenty miles from Athens, Greece. At This Battle The Greeks won, giving a new hope that they would defeat the Persians. A good thing about them fighting with the person was it was the one and only time that it brought Greece together as one. Athens and Sparta were fighting all the time, this one time however, they work together as one. link

"This battle meant a boost for the Athenian self-confidence, and the city became even stronger after the discovery of silver ore near Laurion. The new affluence was used to build a large navy."
The way that the Greeks would defect the Persians was by water. The Greeks had the best navy a around. it was smaller then the Persians. The way the Greeks won, was they would out think the Persian something that people from Athens was very good at. link

"For the Persians this defeat was a relatively minor affair. Their empire would last for 150 years more, and would often play a leading, if largely indirect, role in Greek affairs. For the Greeks the results were far more marked. They took great pride in their success against overwhelming odds, and became still more proud of their culture and conscious of the difference which they believed distinguished them from their "barbarian" neighbors. " There were two very different place that wanted the same thing. The Greeks were very proud of what they had done. source

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great was a very strong leader. He lead many military excursions winning everyone of them. Alexander was a student of the famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle.He trained Alexander in many thing, this would help him the great leader that he was .
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Alexander, born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia he was the son of the King, Philip II.
Growing up he was a student under Aristotle. His Father wanted him to learn from one of the best, which did he, for we are still learning from him today. Alexander Leander about philosophy, literature, science, medicine, and rhetoric.
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When His father, Philip II died, Alexander took over as king at the age of twenty. In those twenty years he rulered more land then any other king in his history. Soon after he was made Pharaoh of Egypt, He conquered Greece's great enemy Persia, as well as the lands of Egypt and as far as India. google-books link


This is true, Alexander the Great want to war to win over country's, he never lost a battle. However he was greatly loved. Alexander was known to let people still do things the way they did them before like their religion. It is said that part of what made him so great was his character. It what won over most of his people. google-books


"Before his death, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks." Alexander had a short life for he lived until the age of thirty three. In his life time did many great things, he had goals in his life and he did things to make sure that he would meet his goals. Alexander the great is someone who we will still learn from to this day. link

The Spartans of Greece

When we think of Greece, most of us think of Athens. In city-state that was all about learning, philosophy, arts, and splendid buildings. However, Athens or even Greece would not be the same Greece that we know today if there was not a every important city-state called Sparta. link

Sparta is located in southern part of the Peloponnese in Greece. "They learned reading and writing for basic needs, but all the rest of their education was that make them well-disciplined and steadfast in hardship and victorious in battle." The Spartans were warriors, All the man in there city-state would go off to war at the age of seven. Source

The Spartans life was all about the army, in this it made so there was no time for anything else.
They had lots of courage to do what they did. When there wife would send them off to war it would be a home come a hero or come home dead. The women in this society were very brave because they had to send there men off to war. Source-google books link

The fact that war and there army was the most important part of there society, they conquered many city-states around them. Also, they were always at war with Athens. The Spartans worked as a team very well. They were learned and worked at this, it is what made them great.Link

The Spartans did many great things, however there were many things that when we think about were horrible. What we need to do this learn from the good, there team work was amazing. the team work is what help save that country. If not for the Spartans there would not be the Greece that we know today. source-google books

Greek Philosophers

"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge" This a quote is from the Metaphysics of Aristotle, one of the most famous books ever writen. Aristolte was a unvierly unknowage as one of the best philosophers. Aristotle was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great from Greece. there were three great philosphers that shaped the phosophy that we know today. these three were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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Philosophy means "love of wisdom" derive from the Greeks. Nautruly Greece would have some of the best philosophers in History. Most of the of time when one think of Greece they think of Athens. Athens is were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle came from. These philosophers would would study thing like Athens politics, laws, values, costums, and Religon.
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In the fifth century Socrates was the most influentail and interesting person in Greece. He was very well known in his time for his conversational skills and public teaching, he wrote noting. We have to learn about his knowledge from His students. Especially Plate, the thing sbout this is plato was also, a philospher and would put his own ideas into Socrates teachings. Link

Socrates's best student was an aristocratic young man named Plato. He carried on most of Socrate's teachings. He evenally had his own acdemy. Today we know a lot about Plato's teachings because unlike Sorate, Plato wrote down his teachings. "The Academy Plato opened would become in its time the most famous school in the classical world, and its most famous pupil was Aristole. source

Aristole ( google books) was a student of Plato's. He also, was anothing great philosopher from Greece."He made important contributions by systemizing deductive logic and wrote on physical subjects. His philosophy had a long-lasting influence on the development of all Western philosophical theories." In Philosophy one learns and teachs another also, adding to it. This is what made These there great men man great. they learned something and added to it. There is many things we and learn from them. source

Greek Architecture

The first settlers of the Greek civilizations built very basic structures. "The houses were mainly built with a circular, oval, apsidal, or rectangular shape." Most of the home in Greece had one room, not very often would one find a house with two rooms. These Structures were made with mud bricks, there would be stone and reeds in the mud of their buildings. source

Greek Architecture( google book source) like most everything deluded over the years. When people from Minoan come to Greece, they built houses with many rooms. However, at this time they didn't build public places. In the classic Greek architecture period they are made out of three orders that you mostly find in the temples. The three orders are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Also, they are known for their columns style. link

The most of Buildings that is best known is the Parthenon and the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, are Doric. "the Greek temple has always been seen as fundamentally distinct from and superior to most other early religious types, partly because of the simplicity of its form, partly because of the exquisite refinement of the best examples, and partly because it is seen to reflect the emergence in Greece of a rational, philosophical approach to art that replaced earlier belief systems. " source


The Greeks had many thing made with Marble. However, they didn't really start to use marble until the 5th cent. B.C. "In addition to temples, the Greeks also built a number of other kinds of structures. Their public spaces included monumental tombs; agoras , in ancient Greece, the public square or marketplace of a city, or public meeting places; stoas stoa, in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square...... Click the link for more information. , or colonnaded shelters; stadiums stadium, racecourse in Greek cities where footraces and other athletic contests took place. Palaestrae, or gymnasiums for athletic training; propylaea, or entrance gateways to cities; and amphitheaters. " The As Greece grew the people built more and more public buildings source

"The Greek culture had a huge impact on on the history of the world. There is something Greek in almost everything, especially in the world's architecture." They have repeated the architecture over and over in many buildings. The white house of the USA is from the basic Greek Architecture.

The greek gods

The Greeks ( google books) were Polytheism, they had many gods and goddesses. The Greeks worshiped their gods a what they call a pantheon. Each one of the gods were the god of something, they had there own power. The Stories or myths of the Greek gods told why things were the way the were, humans, life, the sun."The ancient Greeks viewed their gods as being a large interrelated group or society that had a very complex hierarchical system in which they all functioned collectively" source, Link

Zeus is king of the gods, god of the sky. He was the ruler of all the gods and goddesses.When Zeus would get mad, which happened a lot, he would throw down thunder bolts. Hera was Zeus's wife however, Zeus had many other kids that was not Hera. The Greek gods were very much like humans with super powers, or celebrates. link

"The Greek goddess Athena is usually portrayed as one of the most benevolent goddesses . . .strong, fair, and merciful." Athena is the goddess of wisdom. She was born out of her father Zeus's head. The Greeks loved her so much that they named a city after her, Athens Greece.

Also, she was the goddess of war. Being the god of war she was not in expertise in violence, but more so in disciplined part of war. Source ,link

Hera was the goddess of marriage, the wife to Zeus. She was also Zeus's sister.

Zeus had many kids, however, not with Hera. Naturally this would make any woman mad. Time and time again, Hera tried to get rid of them. google books

The Greek gods are very interesting. They have a lot of human characteristics about them. The people of Greece worshiped their gods in a pantheon. The Greek gods also had favorites humans that they would help out. One can learn a lot about them from the Iliad and the odyssey, which were the great epic poems that were written by homer.link

The Greeks and Egyptians

"The arrival of the Greeks brought an unprecedented amount of change in Egypt as they overlaid the existing society with that of their own." The Greeks and Egyptians influenced each other in many ways. Mostly In the art and architecture, and in religion. Also, they changed each other because of trade. source books.google-source

The Egyptians had a long lasting artistic tradition. The Greeks art the very much so based on their history. However, they used many of the same subjects mostly the same symbols. There art, meant different thing to each other. source google.books source

With Different rulers coming to rule the culture would be the same in some ways. Alexander the III, or Alexander the great took over Egypt and had a influence on them even more so then before. "Greek travelers had actually been visiting Egypt for centuries, many of them setting up trading colonies or acting as mercenaries." source

"Greek temples are most famous part of Greeks architecture. They combine the Greek tradition of the megeron house with the Egyptian temple to make a new simple, and elegant from." The Greeks and Egyptians would combine ideas from one in other. this was easy because the Greeks were working in Egypt from time to time. source

The Egyptians were polytheistic ( they had more then one god, many in fact.) Also, were the Greeks. Then the Greeks come in to their land the Egyptians started worship their god and the Greeks. The Egyptians got ideas from the Greeks, and the Greek did the same as the Egyptians. They could take a idea and build on it and make it better, just as we should to do. source

The New Kingdom Of Egypt

"There was an explosion of creativity, wealth and power in Egypt that would make it the envy of the world. After defeating the Hyksos invaders, successive Pharaohs expanded and maintained their Empire through both force and diplomacy. In the process, they won Egypt vast amounts of gold, influence and respect." The New Kingdom was the most powerful time of ancient Egypt.

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The New Kingdom Started in around1550 and ended around 1069 B.C. From the 17th 17th Dynasty to the 20th Dynasty. The New Kingdom was often referred to as Egyptian Empire. "This is the era in Ancient Egypt with which most of us are familiar because of the famous Pharaohs who reigned during this era"

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In the New Kingdom was the building of the tombs of the "Valley of the Kings".

There were many great Pharaohs like Akhenaten,Tutankamun, Tuthmose and Ramses II also Queen hatshepsut, the first Female Pharaoh. With King Thutmose III as Pharaoh Egypt came to the height of its power. He sent the Military to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea under the Egyptian rule. source

In the time of the new kingdom ancient Egypt. They had many powerful kings. Egypt had taken over many lands around them with there the kings. In this time their military was every good.

"the new kingdom Egypt became a world power." source Google-books

The new kingdom had many great pharaohs and the first female pharaoh. Their legacy was for being every powerful, having a great government. The valley of the gods was in the time of the new kingdom a swell. Then new kingdom is the the era that most people now the most about, because of the famous kings.

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The Pennsylvania state University

The Middle Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom was from 2050-1652 B.C. (Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13.)
In this time Egypt began to expaned. "The capital of Egypt was moved from Memphis in lower Egypt to Thebes in upper Egypt." The Egyptian called the Middle Kingdom"The Golden Age" a age of stability. source


In the Old Kingdom the Pharaohs had been seen as a god-king, segregated from his people. In the Middle Kingdom he was seen as a Shepherd for his people. "Under these kings, trade with foreign countries began again, irrigation projects were repaired, and the writing of texts started up from scratch. The power of the king, however, never really returned." source


The Government of the Middle Kingdom was some what based off of the Old Kingdom. However, there were many significant variations. "The Middle Kingdom rulers were able to extend Egypt's inference and Prosperity." Egyptian began to learn more, trade, and just grow as a country. Addition of that, they became a stronger nation, more powerful. It changed the direction of Egypt for the better. source-google books



In the Old Kingdom they started to build amazing pyramids. they all ready had a government set up. however, The Old Kingdom did not insure the growth and survival of Egypt. In The Middle Kingdom the Egyptian really started to grow, become a great nation. The Middle Kingdom was more Superior then the Old kingdom because of this.


The Middle Kingdom, or the golden age had been a period of growth for Egypt. "It came to a end around 1652 B.C with a invasion of Egypt by a group of people from waster Asia known to the Egyptians as the Hyksos." It's true that Egypt had grown for the better. However, that does not mean they were unstoppable. Book source "World Histoy: the Human Odyssey" pg 38

The Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"The Old Kingdom is often referred to as 'the Age of the Pyramids.' The time period covering the Old Kingdom is 2686 BC - 2181 BC." The Old kingdom is mostly famous for a lot of pyramids that were at this time in history for the burial places of the pharaohs ."The building of pyramids would not have been possible without a flourishing economy and a strong central government" source

In the Old Kingdom, many events had happened. For instance, "the most remarkable change is the transition of Step Pyramids to 'true' pyramids with smooth surfaces." So instead of Pyramids the looked kind of a stair way up to the top. It was smooth or you could say it was flat all the way to the top. source

Also, the First Pyramids was built in Saqqara, Egypt during the The 3rd Dynasty. In the reign of the 4th dynasty, the great pyramid of Egypt were built in Giza. To this day it is still standing as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. "the 4th dynasty has brought about several changes that set it apart from the first three dynasties." source

The Old Kingdom did not insure the growth and survival of Egypt. The Egyptian were are concerned with what was going to happen in there after life than in future generations. They had short life span and so it was very important to have a good after life. they would work for the pharaohs, building the pyramids because they believed that the more you did on this earth for the pharaoh the better your after life would be.

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The legacy of the old kingdom had carried would not be forgotten. The burial custom were generally the same in the subsequent kingdoms of Egypt. The art of the old kingdom, the carving and decoration patterns were relatively the same. The old kingdom was the uprising of Egypt.

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