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Ancient Greece was a beautiful civilization that flourished between 750 and 338 B.C.E. Greece is a small country located in Southern Europe, and is shaped like a hand with fingers that stretch into the Mediterranean Sea. The mainland of Greece is a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides. The mainland also has many mountains, which separated the scattered farms and villages throughout the countryside.
Twenty-first century historians still study Ancient Greece today. You may be wondering why. Greece’s ideas, art, writings, philosophies, politics, and discoveries have shaped our society to what it is to this day. The forms of government that were created throughout the Greek city-states are many of the same forms of government used today. Does Democracy sound familiar? Monarchy? Oligarchy? All of these originated from Ancient Greece.
What about the Olympics? Have you ever heard of those? The Olympic Games also came from Ancient Greece, as well as some of the sports such as foot-racing and wrestling. However, we do not have chariot-racing and fights to-the-death like they did.
Without Ancient Greece, so many things in our lives would be done differently. Our society would not be the same without this civilization.
Twenty-first century historians still study Ancient Greece today. You may be wondering why. Greece’s ideas, art, writings, philosophies, politics, and discoveries have shaped our society to what it is to this day. The forms of government that were created throughout the Greek city-states are many of the same forms of government used today. Does Democracy sound familiar? Monarchy? Oligarchy? All of these originated from Ancient Greece.
What about the Olympics? Have you ever heard of those? The Olympic Games also came from Ancient Greece, as well as some of the sports such as foot-racing and wrestling. However, we do not have chariot-racing and fights to-the-death like they did.
Without Ancient Greece, so many things in our lives would be done differently. Our society would not be the same without this civilization.