Accomplishments/Mistakes

What did they achieve? How did they fail?

In the battle of marathon the Greeks won even though they didn't have as much men as Persia . In the battle Persia lost about 6,400 of their men while Greece lost less than 200 men. This was one of the earliest battles recorded. This happened in 490 b.c. This was one of Greece's achievements. One of the  the fails that the Greeks had happened with the Peloponnesian War. In the end of this war the Greece was almost ruined while Sparta had power over the Greek states.

    

Technology

*new inventions
  One of their earliest inventions was called the archimedes which were levers that they invented around the times in 287-212 BC. The radioimmunoassay (RIA) was a new invention invented in 1959. This device is a way of chemically watching the human blood and tissue and it is also used as a  diagnose diseases like diabetes. It only captures a little bit of blood.
*Agriculture innovations
Many places used slaves to do work, but Greece on the other hand used technology so they didn't have to use slaves.
*Writings
Ancient Greeks were the first Europeans to read and write their written language. There has been a few theories of who or how their language was created. One of the theories says that it might of been created in the years around 2500BC to 1700 BC when the language moved with the proto-Greek speakers. Another theory says that it was moved  before proto-Greek.
*Scientific Discoveries
The Greeks were the people that estimated the size of the earth, they figured out how thing like pullies and levers worked, they studied light, sound, in medicines, the Greeks looked at how organs worked, and what happened with the diseases.

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Interaction with environment

*farming practices
Some of the practices/techniques that Ancient Greeks used- They grew cereals for bread and portage. They also grew grapes for wine. Greeks used mostly goats and sheep to make dairy products like milk and cheese.
*natural resources the people depended on
In Greece, only about 20-30% of the land was able to be used or used for crops, but over half of the people were farmers.
*how did they adapt the land
Greece had lots of mountains which separated parts of Greece even know they had the same government. They also have many lakes. Agriculture was their main source that provided them with their resources.

Government

*form of government- The Athenians(Classic Greece) gave us democracy in 400s B.C.E. Democracy is their form of government.
*laws- People have civil liberties. You have to follow Greek laws even though you are from a different country. If you do not follow Greek laws, even if you do not know them, you could possibly be  imprisoned, arrested, or expelled. You can be in jail for a while and/or have to stay in jail many years if you use illegal drugs in Greece. If you get in sexual contact with people is a crime in the U.S. If you use pepper spray in Greece, it will be taken away and you could possibly go to jail for using it.

*who has power- In Ancient Greece they believed in mythology. Oedipus had power. He was the son of King Lauis and the Queen Jocasta. A curse would be put on Lauis that said he would be killed if Jocasta had a son. Jocasta had a son and named him Oedipus. When Opedius was born, his feet were pierced and his father left him to bleed to death. Later, a A shephard found Opedius and brout him to King Polybus who did agree to adopt him. When he got older Opedius had got advice to marry his mother and kill his dad. His dad was killed and he eventually married his mom. Opedius then got power. A Greek goddess with the name of Rhea was worshiped by many people. She was the Titanis(six earth Goddesses) mother of Gods. Her name means "flow". One myth said that she was Queen of Heaven and the wife of Titan Kronos.

       
                                                       














*important leaders- At the beginning of Greece's time they started with hunters and farmers. After that the Minoan and Mycenaean kings took over. There was a famous man named Hippocrates who was one of the first people to release medicine from any kind of  a religious superstition.
*system of laws- There are three main stages in the systems that people go through. There is the Pre Legal Society, the Proto Legal Society, and the Legal Society. The Pre Legal Society has no ways of dealing with disagreement or argument. The Proto Legal Society has rules to handle argument and disagreement. In Greece they go through the Legal Society. This System has to consider in a specific way that is so not wanted and they use a warrant to punish someone.

Culture

*clothes- Ancient Greek's wore loose clothes. The main item that men wore was called a tunic also known as a chiton. This clothing was made of big pieces of square cloth, with pins to hold it up at the shoulder, and a belt around their waist. Women wore clothes kind of like the men but their dresses were a little bit different. The women's dresses also had big squares but they were made out linen and wool. They also used pins to hold it together. About the only difference was that the women's hung down to their ankles unlike the men's who hung down on their knees. These clothes were mostly made by women or slaves unless the people that wanted them were were very rich and they could buy one from the agora also known as the marketplace.