The First Period of Ancient Greece was the Archaic Age, from about 750B.C-480B.C. During the Archaic age, people began to build a foundation towards the idea of a city-state, while also expanding to different regions in search of precious meta

ls. Each community had different degrees of control, and different communities had different prosperities because of location, nonetheless, all used the revolutionary idea of a city-state. By 500 B.C, Greece had colonies in Spain, France, other places to mine for precious metals and Sparta became the most powerful city-state in Greece. With so many communities, competition is bound to arise and did leading to the Athenian Empire.

359 – 323B.C, Phillip II, and Alexander the Great, Phillips II son, along with the community of Macedonia would turn Greece from an unstable society into a international powerhouse. Macedonia was a not a city-state community, and by 338, Phillip II would bribe, fight, and argue his way to being acknowledged by Greece that he was the one leader. Philip II had ambitions of attacking Persia for having attacked Greece back in 480B.C, but was murdered by a Macedonia nobel. His successor, his son, would follow in footsteps with the same ambitions and was successful. Alexander the Great conquered present day Turkey to Afghanistan to Egypt all by the age of 20. Unfortunately, he died in 323B.C due to the illness, leaving the commanders of the army to fight for portions of the Powerhouse.

In the beginning, Greece also resented the Romans because of high taxes and no complete freedom, but with a little time, the Greeks came to a liking of the Romans. The Romans and Greece had many similarities, mainly because the Romans, a war society, who would adapt a lot of culture from the Greeks, and would even appoint Greeks into the Roman Political System. Greece greatly prospered during this time because of tourism and reputation. People from all over would go to see the higher education institutions, the prevailing drama plays, or the beautiful and elegant art. The period of Roman Greece was about 31B.C – 395A.D, and would eventually collapse because of civil war, earthquakes, and disease. This would more/less be the end of the Grecian Kingdoms as many new powers came, conquered, and changed what now considered present day Greece.

The people of Greece were a unique group of people, mainly because they were such an intell

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