location: athens is located in greece if you didnt already know that and Greece is located in the Medetereaniaen sea and to get to Greece you could use boats that i show you above or you could you use a cart to get to places. carts were a useual way to get around.
geography: Greece is a peninsula, which means that it is surrounded on three sides by water. Greece has a lot of smaller peninsulas sticking out from it, which means Greece enjoys many natural harbours. Greece is also surrounded by mountains but these mountains aren't huge, but if you wanted to bet from place to place over the mountains to Greece it would be a bit of a delay. three thousand years ago before boats were made in Greece traveling was hard because you had to travel be foot and get over the mountains and it would have been very hard. In the ancient world that grew up around the Mediterranean Sea, the Greeks became known as great sailors. They sailed about the Mediterranean, setting up colonies and outposts where they could. They tried to set up a colony or two in Egypt, but the Egyptians chased them away. They had more luck establishing new towns on the coast of Turkey, on the coast of Italy, on the coast of Africa, and on the coast of France. by luka brucic
Greek warfare : in ancient greek warfare was seen as necessary evil of that time . During the bronze starting around 1600 bc the ancient greeks warrior was well armed and armored they were the premier warrior of this day.there weapons where a short sword ,long spears and shilled that went out in to battle with a army of thousands mens they have big numbers to over power there enemies. by Mario curtotti
Religion: he ancient Greeks were a deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods whom they believed appeared in human form and yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. . While many sanctuaries honored more than a single god, usually one deity such as Zeus at Olympia.
The goddess rises nude out of the sea which gave her birth, wringing the sea water from her hair. The statuette may have been intended for display in a pool of water, since it appears to have been cut off at the waist as part of its original design. Aphrodite is goddess of sexuality and erotic love, and concerned with fertility and procreation. She was also worshipped as a goddess of the sea. Embodying perfect beauty, she appears clothed in the major arts until the 4th century BC when her statues show her naked.
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.The Thermometer It's said that the thermometer is dated back to the Greeks of Alexandria who discovered that air expands. That idea many years later helped Galileo convert the device into a scientific instrument that distinguished temperature. So Galileo may have went farther but Ancient Greece still deserves some credit and so does Philo of Byzantium who invented the thermoscope that also helped Galileo with his studies. (Source:mlahanas)2.The Vending Machine Hero of Alexandria created the vending machine. His vending machine though was a lot different than what we have now though. Hero's vending machine was like this, a person would deposit the coin into a slot, and the coin would fall into a pan. The pan was attached to a lever, and the coin's weight would cause the lever to open a valve and holy water would gush out. When the coin would continue to tilt the pan down and then its counterweight would snap the pan into, closing the valve. So that's the ancient vending machine. Here's a photo of what it would have looked like, vending machine. (Photo source: underthepier and fact source: I09.com)
3.Map The first Greek Scholar to invent a geographical map was Anaximander and Dikaiarch also gave the concept of latitude and longitude. Maps are one of the most ancient Greek inventions used today. So next time you're going traveling thank the Greeks for the detailed maps. (Source: mlahanas)
4. Alarm Clock While not many people are probably happy with the alarm clock because alarm clocks tell us to get up for work or school. Though then again they make sure we're not late, so that's a good thing. The alarm clock was created in 200 BC by Ctesibius. The first alarm clock was made with a dial and a pointer for the time. The alarm system would drop pebbles into a gong at a pre-set time. (Source: Buzzle) 5.The Anchor The first anchor was invented by Eupalamas and it was made out of wood. Anacharsis then invented in 592 B.C. the first metal anchor. So I think everybody can agree how important this invention is, because of course the anchor is an important part of ship even though it's a simple thing. (Source:Buzzle)
So those are five inventions that we can thank the Ancient Greeks for creating and that still help us today. by luka brucic
CITY STATES: Athens and Sparta were the two most important city-states in ancient Greece, or so they believed. But they were not the only city-states. There were many city-states in the ancient Greek world. Each was important in its own way. The Greeks who lived in each city-state were proud of their hometown. They were also proud to be Greek. All Greeks, wherever they made their home, had things in common.
TO BE GREEK: The ancient Greeks spoke the same language. They believed in the same gods. They shared a common heritage. They perceived themselves as Greeks.
TO BE A CITIZEN OF A CITY-STATE: The ancient Greeks referred to themselves, however, as citizens of their hometown - their city-state. Each city-state (polis) had its own personality, goals, laws and customs. Ancient Greeks were very loyal to their city-state.
There were three main forms of government in ancient Greece:
Monarchy: Rule by a king. One city-state whose government was a monarchy was the city-state of Corinth.
Oligarchy: Rule by a small group. One city-state whose government was an oligarchy was the city-state of Sparta.
Democracy: Rule by the citizens, voting in an assembly. One city-state whose government experimented for about a hundred years with democracy was the ancient city-state of Athens.