For hundreds of years the Mediterranean was dominated by one people: the Greeks. Greece consisted of city-states or polis where a city was a self governing body in which its people lived under the cities rules and beliefs. One of the greatest of these polii was Athens. Athens developed the first rudimentary democracy. Greeks have a history of great philosophers and thinkers; and have c

As Rome became more powerful, it adopted from Greece its scholarship and artistry. Its civilization was more practical with Rome concentrating on politics, trade, and conquest. This great empire spanned from southern England to Egypt. The engineering and architectural energy remain in ruins of aqueducts, arches, temples and the Coliseum. On an entirely different level one of the most important things the Romans left us was in paper. The ‘Roman Law’ ruled the land well after the Roman Empire was dissolved and remains the basis of laws in continental Europe. The Romans were also great organizers. To move an army of a thousand men, let alone fifty armies of this size was an incredible feat for the time. Romans wrote everything down, and believed in doing things in an orderly, accountable fashion. The Roman system of local government reporting to central leadership became the model for the Christian Church and eventually corporate organization

During the High Middle Ages one can see on the map of how modern borders came to be. Smaller nations unified into larger nations according to what type of Ch

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