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The Greek philosophies help us still to this day and show us something that helps with important things.

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God played a role in influencing Greek lives. They believed that doing shameful crimes would anger the gods and acting as a hero, such as Perceus or Hercules would please them, and would promote them to god status after death or bring good luck. Many tales involving both evil and good people taught people and at a young age to respect and not be greedy.

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The most famous builing from Ancient Greece is the Parthenon. This was made for the Athena, the goddess of wisdom and battle. The ruins of temple are conserved today.

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In Ancient Greece, the Greeks used their gods and goddesses to explain the ways of the world. Greeks also often prayed or made sacrifices to the gods so that they would please the gods and help them get what they wanted.

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Greeks were very interested in astronomy, geometry, and medicine. People started studting astronomy from the Babylonians, and made their own discoveries from there. A man called Thales found out that the Earth is round, and figured out what causes eclipses. Pythagoras was a very accomplished Greek mathematician, who  is said to be the first one to prove the Pythagorean Theorm. The Greeks wanted to find out how people got diseases, so they came up this theory: There were four basic substances,  blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.  If you didn't have the right amount of these things, then you would get sick. Doctors like Hippocrates wrote books about medicines.

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Greeks used the gods to explain what happens in everyday life. For example, if there were big waves, or winds, they would say that Posiedon, god of the sea, was angry. They prayed to different gods to get things. Like if they were going to war, they would sacrifce animals to Ares, the god of war. Or if they wanted good crops, they prayed to Demeter, the goddess of agriculture.

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-The Greeks invented water mills
- The alarm clock
-The flamethrower
-The sundial
-Many medicines
-Theater
And a lot lot lot more

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According to Greek mythology, three brothers named Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades gambled over who could control the heavens, sea, and underworld.

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Ancient Greece literature is considered by many to be the first steps to the Western literary tradition.

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The Greeks were very good architects and designers. On the Acropolis, there are multiple columns that hold up the ceiling. You can imagine how the Acropolis would have looked before it started to crumble. The Greeks put lots of effort into their work

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There are 4 periods that art was divided into: Archaic period, Classical period, Hellenistic period, and Geometric period.

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The law of Draco was the first step towards the world's democratic government in Athens.

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Greeks built majestic theaters to honor their gods. During festivals honoring the gods, people would perform plays and sing songs in credit to the god/gods they were representing.

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They have invented Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns which are used even today to hold up the roofs of theatres, courthouses, temples, and government buildings. There were rectangle stadiums for their sports, and they even had royal/majestic theatres that honored the gods they worshiped.

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The Greek scientists were mostly men because mainly boys went to school. A man named Thales used astronomy to figure out that the earth was round, and he also found out what caused eclipses. They also worked with geometry, and they started to form rules about how the world worked based on geometry. Few women worked with men with science and astronomy. The Greeks also figured out how to tell if you were sick, so they worked with medicine. They also figured out how to tell a person's character based on their appearance.

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The Greeks took lot of time in order to create a piece of architecture. If you zoom into the Parthenon's pillars, you can see little curves in each pillar, which must've taken a very long time

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Medicine in Greece was very important. The Greeks would test, record, and observe symptoms and reactions. They had created medicine and cures to some diseases using herbs. They used things like celery, egg whites, and opium to treat patients, and if it worked, they would record that they had found the cure to the disease the patient had.

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The Greeks had many ideas on science. They had many theories, and some were correct. They understood that the Earth is a globe, and circles the sun. This theory is correct, and so people today know how the solar system works. They believed in evolution, and thus thought that all animals and plants come from the evolution of other animals and plants (this is also correct).

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In ancient Greek literature, there were many forms of writing including epics and poems. The Western society started their tradition with their epics and poems. The Greeks invented drama, which involved both tragedy and comedy that are still used in some forms of drama today.

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Greece had a major influence on the world. Law, sports, politics, and more are all ideas originated in Greece. The Olympic games originated in Greece. Athletes would compete with one another for honors. Democracy and philosophy also came from Greece. Another influence is that doctors today sometimes take an oath of quality to promise to try their hardest to heal their patients. Other things like architecture, theatre, and literature (poems and fables), also come from Greece.

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Greek art is classified into four sections: Archaic, Hellenistic, Geometric and Classical. The Law of Draco made the world's first movement into a democratic government in Athens.

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Greeks were well known for many of their inventions and art. They sculpted statues, built temples, and had sporting competitions.Those were only some of the Greek's achievements. The Greeks have accomplished a lot.

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There are 4 periods, archaic, classical, hellenistic, and the geometric age. Throughout these periods artists painted canvases, pottery, sculpted statues. They made beautiful art.

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Greeks were really famous for its art and they painted stories and gods from their religion and scenes from their everyday life.

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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were philosophers who questioned the ways of life, and how we choose to look at a problem. People in Ancient Greece didn't like their teachings, because they questioned everything. People in the modern world came to realize that their teachings were important, and they live on today.

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Plato, a famous philosopher, created a school for greek children to learn many useful skills.

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The greeks worshipped 12 gods. It originally started with 3 according to the myths. Hades, Poseidon, and Zues

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Greeks were well known for their art. They used different styles in the different eras.  They portrayed the gods, scenes from mythology, and everyday life

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Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle often questioned the ways of the world, which both fascinated and annoyed people. However, they came to influence philosophy over the centuries, and even today.

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Even when Athens was beginning to decline, Greek art still continued to impact nearby lands and cultures, due to Alexander the Great’s large influence.

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The whole western library started in the Ancient Greek society. They created the form of poetry, plus they invented drama. The Greeks made masterpieces of tragedy & comedy that are some of Ancient Greece's achievements... still used today.

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The acropolis is surrounded by other buildings as well. There is the Parthenon, Erechtheion, and the Athena Nike.

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There are 12 Greek gods in total, and it started with the three brothers Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.

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The philosophers were highly valued in Greece. The most famous today are Socrates, for his way of thinking about things.

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Parthenon is a temple that was created to honor the goddess of Athena. It was the Athenian Acropolis, in Greece, and she was considered their patron.

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Greek philosophers introduced many new ideas and concepts that influenced societies all over the world.

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Artists all throughout Greek history made spectacular works of art. Historians split that history into 4 categories, the Archaic period, Classical period, Hellenistic period, and the Geometric period.
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Pericles decided to build the Parthenon as a form of art to start his advertising. There were many people, such as Aristotle, who were important to the 4 periods of art.

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Plato created school where kids can learn and do a lot of Greek academic learning.

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Greek architecture fascinates a lot of people due to it's magnificent design and structure.

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The Greek philosophists wrote many important documents that helps historians tell how Greece was like a long time ago.

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In the four ages, artists used different ways to paint vases. First scraping black figures from an orange background, then later, painting figures on a black background.

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artists made extremely beautiful pottery in all the 4 ages, classical, archaic,hellenistic, and geomatric ages. They sculpted astounding statues and painted many canvases

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Greek architecture is popular even today, because it was so useful and well designed.

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The ancient greeks had 12 gods they worshiped, although it started with 3 gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.

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In Greek art, art is categorized as the Archaic period, Classical period, Hellenistic period, and the geometric period. The art in each of these periods are in a different style.

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Greek Buildings were built so well that they survive even today

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Greek Philosophy influenced and taught us about philosiphic knowledge

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Artists began making beautiful arts and pottery in the Classical, Archaic, Hellenistic, and Geomatric ages