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Ancient Greece Research Paper

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Ericca Latza
HIS 111-02
October 17, 2014
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Greece
From the ancient world to modern civilization, Greek civilization has left its impact on our world throughout history. From Greece’s rise and fall, its social, political, and cultural contributions, without the Greeks we would not be as advanced as we are today. The western world was highly influenced by the Greeks, gaining ideas about art, architecture, philosophy, and science.
The first people to actually inhabit Greece were the Myceneans. It is hard to figure out exactly where they came from, but historians can conclude that they were the first advanced society to settle in Greece based to archeological discoveries. As advanced as this civilization was however, …show more content…

The way someone was treated was determined by their social status and wealth. The people on the top of the “food chain” were land owners, farmers, and craftsman. Below these people are the women, and below the women are the slaves. To make the social ladder of ancient Greece seem simple, you can say that if you were not a male, wealthy, or a contributor to the community, you were nothing. Those were the only people who had any rights worth even having. Women could not climb the social ladder, but were placed into the social group they were born into, or married into. Slaves did not contribute to the community, but were allowed to have a family and land if their masters permitted it. The social hierarchy of ancient Greece is hardly any different from other ancient societies, but thank goodness that is one aspect of modern day life that western civilizations did not …show more content…

The Greeks influenced the architecture of Pompeii homes by introducing the peristyle, and open-air court with a colonnaded portico opening onto rooms. (Carswell et. al., Splendors of the Past, 109). Not only did the western civilizations become awed with Greek architecture, they became inspired by the artwork as well. Greek artwork was the inspiration source of many artists in the western world. Some of the philosophers of the western Renaissance era were greatly influenced by the Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato. Great literature and mathematic developments were also adopted by the westerners. These mathematic ideas are some that we still use today with the symbols such as pi and delta symbols. Without the Greeks, western civilizations would not have advanced as far as they

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