Ilustrated History- Ancient Greece

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WHO WERE THE GREEKS? The history of the Greeks started very early. No sooner had the region emerged from prehistoric times than great civilizations evolved that knew about writing, created interesting works of art, and built impressive palaces. These cultures disappeared, swept away by invasions, in what is known as the Dark Ages. After this period of wars and destruction, Greek culture began to appear. This was the Archaic Period, which ended when the Greeks defeated the Persians. It was then that the Classical Period began, during which their civilization reached its full glory. This cultural golden age ended with Macedonia’s invasion of Greece. The Hellenistic Period was the age in which Greek culture expanded into Asia, and it ended with the Roman conquest of Greece and Macedonia, following which the Greeks became subjects of the Roman Empire.
6 WHO WERE THE GREEKS? Greece is a small, mountainous country. Its rugged landscape and steep roads made overland communication very difficult. The Greeks never bothered to build good roads, and fertile, easily cultivated land was on the rare side. So, from the beginning, Greek cities depended on trade for survival. The mountainous terrain isolated the population, so that while they belonged to a single people, the Greeks of various regions were very different from each other. They could never agree for long enough to create empires as large as those of the Egyptians and Persians. However, the Greek coastline is dotted with beaches and natural harbors. In fact, almost every city was near the coast and had its own harbor. This meant that the Greeks, as a people, had a very close relationship with the sea. Greek merchants sailed all over the Mediterranean in search of buyers for their amphorae of oil and wine. When the ships returned from their voyages, they brought back to their cities Egyptian medicine, Persian science, and Phoenician navigation techniques, to name just a few examples. Their civilization was always open to new ideas, and they took art, culture, and science much further than any other people in the ancient world.
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