... a war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It was fought over a beautiful woman named Helen, Queen of Sparta. Even the gods and goddess of Greek Mythology were involved in the Trojan War. The time period of war was the age of Homer, a great writer who wrote the Iliad, the story of the war, but he wasn't part of the battle. It was the age when they made lots ... of bronze things, especially armor. Warriors had a variety of armor made of bronze, wood, metals, etc. Their weapons were mostly ... swords and spears. However, it was the involvement of the gods that ... ...

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... a war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It was fought over a beautiful woman named Helen, Queen of Sparta. Even the gods and goddess of Greek Mythology were involved in the Trojan War. The time period of war was the age of Homer, a great writer who wrote the Iliad, the story of the war, but he wasn't part of the battle. It was the age when they made lots ... of bronze things, especially armor. Warriors had a variety of armor made of bronze, wood, metals, etc. Their weapons were mostly ... swords and spears. However, it was the involvement of the gods that ... ...

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... were a culture that strived for perfection, and harmony. They were fascinated with the human form, and this is revealed in most of their artwork. The Greeks were the first to glamorize the perfection of the human body during the archaic period. Using balance and proportion they sculpted what they considered to be the perfect male and female forms. They called the male the ... and elderly women. Another Greek art form was their pottery. This was from the geometric period. There were two different types of pottery in the Greek culture. The first was Black figure pottery consisting of blac...

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... politics as well as literature is still very much incorporated into practically every advanced civilization since their time; ours very much included. The classical age of Greece was a period of unparalleled achievement. It carried forward the tradition of rational, secular speculation in natural philosophy and science, but turned its attention more to human questions in medicine and ethical and political philosophy. While ... much influenced by the Greeks. The Romans identified their own Gods with the Greek equivalents and incorporated, Greek mythology into their own, until they formed t...

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... generalizations about the civilizations whose remains they are studying? Historians and archaeologists date and classify remains from civilizations using many different methods. One method of classification is how deep the artifact is in the tell, if it is deeper into the tell chances are that it is older. Also ... if there is a language on the artifact they could see what time period those types of people settled there. If an artifact is really beaten up with scratches and fragments broken that would help judge how long ago it ... Hebrew Golden menorah (level 3) dated to be about 1550 ...

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... , proportion and symmetry. These were all classical ideas. The artists wanted to please their patrons so they looked at the past for models of perfection. Most artists had a deep respect for the past and became interested in classical mythology. The patron and his family became to appear in paintings as active participants. They represented real people in history and played characters in ... the story the picture was telling. An example of this would be of the painting of the Journey of the Magi. The Medici family spent large sums of money patronizing the arts. In this painting ... , don...

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