Phoenicians: The Backbone to History

Both characters in the stories made bad choices. Phaethon was a liar and tried to live up to his lie. Arachne was a boastful girl who was disrespectful to others. They are both prideful and that makes them make bad choices which lead to their destruction. Phaethon was a liar because he lied to the other boy about driving the sun chariot and Arachne was very competitive; both of the characters's traits lead to their destruction.

The Romans were the most successful ancient civilization for three reasons. The first reason is that they had the largest and most powerful nation from ancient times to possibly today. The second reason is that they had amazing architecture. The last reason is that they made advancements in government.

According to Soltes (2011), the first Olympics drew the various Greek city-states together in competitions during the time Greek culture began its emergence during the ninth, eighth, and seventh centuries. It is around this time in Greek history, art assumes its own status, not just an instrumental tool for religion and politics. Greece’s earlier geometric period begins its evolution into what would eventually be referred to as classical Greek art. During the same time, Greece became colonists as well as cultural and commercial adventurers, making contact with Egypt and Phoenicia which would influence the new evolved Greek temple structure by the eighth and seventh centuries.

The Ancient Greeks have done so much for the western civilizations. Their success in art, philosophy, architecture, science, government, and history have influenced the western civilizations to use their ideas. Many different people came up with different ideas to contribute to their government. New ideas and conclusions were constantly being made because of philosophers asking questions all the time. They really helped shaped Ancient Greece's government.

The Greek Civilization was one of the greatest ancient civilizations to spring up. Though it faced many trials and tribulations, the ancient Greeks were a center of trade, economic development, and technological advancements. The success of the Greeks to construct such a flourishing culture was largely due to the area in which their civilization was located.

Sone, they became expert sailors and grew wealthy from trade. The creation of the Phoenician alphabet is one of the greatest accomplishments they achieved and was used by many other civilizations. With the founding of Carthage and other colonies, the use of paryus before the Greeks is a few of their other achievements.

Ancient Greek culture beliefs and social ideas have helped us with American Education because it influences us with what is going on today. Ancient Greek influence affected us today with democracy, Ancient Greek actually created the world’s first democracy. Ancient Greek have helped us along with Math, History, and Literature. As a matter of fact, Ancient Greek where the first to invent new things along the years. For example, Greek where the first civilization to use the alphabet. Greek have help us over million years.

Ancient Greece is one is one of the most important civilizations in history. Why? Simply because they were the base of many things that we believe in, practice, or build upon today. Some examples are language, architecture, art, science, and much more. Over hundreds and thousands of years technology, agricultural techniques, weapons, and education has advanced and evolved. Many of these ideas not only started within Ancient Greece, but within other ancient civilizations as well. Have you ever wondered what life would have been like if the ideas and inventions that Ancient civilizations had uncovered had not been shared with other societies?

Throughout history there have been many contributions to Western civilization made by the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Greeks contributed in the areas of art, democracy, sports, architecture, theater, philosophy, math, and science. These contributions were the forefront and beginning ideals that were established so many years ago, but are still used today. They were responsible for many contributions to Western civilization, the Greeks had the first known democracy, they were known for their amazing architecture, and the Ancient Greek Olympics are still carried out today.

This was hard on the Greek people more than the other people of the empires.They had be fixed in their religious beliefs for centuries that they never thought that they might be wrong. When all of these ideas poured into greece, it conflicted they're rugged religious beliefs is caused pandamonium however the rulers of the three empires were able to calm them people down and things were stable again. Out of all of the the places of the empires I thinks that the most important place must be Alexandria in egypt and there grate library. There library reminds me so much of the philosophers school in athens. There is so much new ideas and plans of inventions could change the world! I thinks there could be more than 50,000 scrolls People like archimedes who made great inventions like the archimedes screw which help people get more water. Or Eratosthenes how arcuately found the world's crumufances. He did this by telling a friend to go 500 miles into africa and plant a post next to a well where the the sun fits perfectly into the well. While his friend did that he planted one in Alexandria. When his friend returned he'd said there was no shadow while at his however there was a shadow at Eratosthenes the only way could happen Eratosthenes thought

They arrived in the area in around 2000 BCE but began to thrive and flourish

Phoenicia reached the height of its power and influence during 200-800BC, establishing mercantile trading colonies across the northern coast of Africa and the Iberian peninsula (including Carthage in 814), developing the world's first written alphabet and, around 1000 B.C. Unlike the Assyrians, the Phoenicians waged no great wars of conquest. Assyria conquering most of the Fertile Crescent, including Phoenicia. The Carthaginians merged with North African Berbers and Iberians to create the Punic civilization that vied with Rome until 146 B.C. when the city was burned to the ground.

Phanariots: an elite that emerged in Constantinople in a neighborhood around the patriarchy. They are called Phanariots because they lived in the Phanar. They were a commercial middle class, whose wealth was based on comers. Not only they were successful business men who had business across the Ottoman empire and Western Europe; but also, they acquired higher education in the west. University of Padua was their favorite university. Many of the heads of the phanariots’ households were alumni of the University of Padua having studied philosophy, law and, in particular, medicine. Even though, the Pharariots were culturally Greek; However, they were not ethically Greek. They were an imperial elite in a sense that they were from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

The Phoenicians, are known as people with a relatively small population, they profoundly changed the history of the world with a most notable contribution. It became a definite advancement in simplicity and accessibility of written communication over both the Cuneiforms of the Sumerians and the Hieroglyphs of the Egyptians. This influence redeemable the linguistic field. A system used by the Phoenician’s’ known as the first to use a phonetic alphabet, a method of twenty- two written marks, we know as letters today, all of which corresponded to a specific consonant sound of the oral language. These representing object and their phonetic symbols represent the sound of syllables as we know them today. This profoundly changed the history of the

Have you ever really looked into the development of history? Have you ever wondered who contributed to western civilization? The ancient Greeks were perhaps one of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world and are among one of the biggest landmarks in all of world history. The Greeks affected philosophy, math, science, arts, architecture, drama and etc. Many of Greek principles and concepts have since been applied in civilizations throughout much of western history and have had a continuing impact on people in different phases of history. Numerous of philosophers, authors, and artists originated in Greece are believed to have influenced much of the world. There were other empires that were bigger than those of Greece, such as Rome and the British Empire, but none of these cultures produced more great thinkers, philosophers, and artists than Greece.