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Theodosius essentially banned all other religions besides Christianity, and made it the official religion of Greece. He destroyed temples, and put fear into his people so they would stop worshipping the old gods.

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Democracy and its ideals were traced back to the Greeks. Not only that, but large advances in science and math were introduced.

With art, many forms influenced art in Western Society. Attention to the beauty of people and architecture was a key point in Greek art.

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Within the trade routes, a deadly disease spread, all by the carrier the flea. In 20 years, nearly 25% of Rome died. Because of this, the emperor tried to win back the hearts of the survivors with money. Due to these large spendings, the following emperors had to increase taxes, which the people obviously did not like. The Huns defeated the Roman empire.

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Because of Julias Ceaser's assassination, his nephew Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. Augustus was one of the best emperors Rome had seen. Because of his ruling skills, trade increased, and a peaceful period of time occured, called "Pax Romana".

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Homer 'created history'. He wrote the Odyssey and he had a very large impact on Greek culture and education.

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Sparta and Athens were two of the largest city states. Sparta was more based on military and, because of this, women had more freedom to do jobs since men were not there.

Athens focused more on government and education for men. Culture, philosophy, and arts were focused more on in Athens, too.

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This system of democracy worked for around 300 years, until the Macedonians ruined everything. Greece wouldn't see another democracy for 2,500 years.

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However, this democracy wasn't perfect. Women and slaves were considered useless to politics, and had no voice.

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The Athenian legal system worked very similar to this.

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If a proposal one made at the Boule passed, it would be sent to the Pnyx, an assembly of 6,000 people who could vote the law up or down.

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The Athenians also used the Boule, which was a court of around 500 people that met daily, where one person got to be in a position of power for a day.

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The Athenians used the system of checks and balances to ensure that no one man had too much power.

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Athens was the first and largest of Greek democracies, meaning that they did all of their voting as individuals.

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A long time ago, Greece was not unified. It was a collection of city states.