... their own civilization (Geography, Food Source, Culture, Permanent Settlements, Government, Economy) I would rate them on a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, and give them an eight. The Greek Civilization has earned this rating because every different aspect of their society had excelled beyond the other societies living in their era. For example, the Greeks were the first to ... from it's main geography. There were no great river systems anywhere to be found in Greece. There were only many small river systems. Also, short mountain ranges cut up the Greek mainland. These mount...

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... angled triangles today. Great people like Sophocles & Aristophanes wrote plays that are famous even today. These plays were performed in the theatre. There were great developments in the field of mathematics and medicine. Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle made their contributions for which they are famous even today. And we have become their followers. Literature in ancient Greece set ... . Many of the stars we see today are named after the characters in Greek myth. The Greek philosophers discovered many facts and ideas which no one can prove to be wrong. Many theorems i...

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... predict celestial events. From this knowledge they also developed astrology where they could predict people's futures by their birthdates. Perhaps because of their need for astronomical calculations, they developed advanced mathematics. There is evidence that they used multiplication, division, square and cube roots, algebra and other operations. They also based their number system on the number 60, which led to ... Monarchy, the Greeks experimented with many different forms of government including Tyranny, dictatorship, aristocracy, oligarchy, and democracy. Aristocracy generally means t...

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Athens and Sparta were both Greek city states, or otherwise known as acropolises, and they were just around 150 miles apart. Yet they were as diverse as they could be. Athens is in central Greece, just ... healthy. Young men were taught at home by their moms until around six or seven. After that, young men went to school until about 14. Teachers taught them reading writing, mathematics, and literature. Sparta was different from Athens in almost every way, starting with its government. Athens was a democracy but Sparta was an oligarchy which means that the ruling power was ... boys were even...

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... taught and the manner in which they were learned. The first and most important subjects learned were reading, writing, and arithmetic. To start, the boys learned the letters of the Greek alphabet, memorized and recited various poets such as Homer, and solved simple arithmetic problems using an abacus and pebbles. According to Plato, the poems of Homer were studied because a boy ... the ages of fourteen to eighteen and only if the boy's family was wealthy enough for him to not be working. The curriculum consisted of more advanced literature, language, and mathematics, though the individu...

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