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-The Romans followed in the Greek's lead and tried to take over Italy. They even managed to take it from after a while.

- The Greeks had a direct democracy form of government. This provided some influence upon the republic government of the Romans.

-  Due to the geographical locations of Greece and Rome, the Romans followed in the Greek's lead and traveled by sea

- Copied the Greeks Mythology almost to a point, while adding their own twists to the stories and making some of their own.

- Romans were known for their mythology, poems, and plays

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-Macedonia was where the romans where from
- Macedonia was located above Greece, and they wanted to take control over it
- Alexander the Great invaded the Persian empire hoping to take control of Greece
- By 331 B.C. Alexander the Great had taken over the Persian Empire, but he still wanted more.
- he traveled to india and fought there, but on his way back he died of sickness and too much alcohol
- Alexander the Great had created the Hellenistic Era, - After he had died, the Empire of Macedonia had split up, than eventually organized again.
- Hellenistic City of Alexandria stood out, and was home to many great writers, poets, scientists, and philosophers
- Was conquered by Rome

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- Geography played a major role
-consisted of large mountain ranges with small river valleys
- Mycenaen was ruled by monarchs, and was the first known greek civilization
- After a while, the population and food production dropped, which lead to their fall.
-  After the collapse of the Mycenaens, than came the dark ages, a time period where little record was kept.
- At the end of the dark age a writer named Homer appeared, and he wrote long poems called "epic poems"
- There were poems like the Odyssey and the Iliad
- His stories had been based of stories passed down from generation to generation.
- Most based on Trojan war
- a polis was a greek city or town meeting place where people could hold religious meetings and social activities

- Sparta was one of the most famous greek city-states, and was heavily military ruled.
- larger role for woman in sparta
-very strict rules like not being able to travel abroad or look up at anything that was not sparta

- Athens was the other most popular city-state of greece, and was the birthplace of democracy
-first ruled in an oligarchy, they started losing money and becoming in debt
- Then after the Persian War Athens created democracy and started ruling by direct democracy, which greatly affected Western society

- Classical Greece was a time period marked by 2 magjor wars: The Persian War, where Greece won by working together
- After the Persian War, Athens grew due to democracy, the Empire of Greece was split between Sparta and Athens
- The Peloponnesian war started around 431 B.C., and lasted till 405 B.C., when Athens surrendered and the Athenian Empire was destroyed.

- Art was a main piece to greek culture, with their main focus being the human body, and working with sculptures and paintings. It was one of the many things that affected western culture.
- Another key part of greek culture and society was dramas and theater. They specialized in tragedies, which were a trilogy of plays. They had many different themes of tragedies, many being good vs, evil, or the nature of human beings.
- Greek philosophy was one of the most important thing that the greeks had that affected western civilization, besides democracy.
- There were many philosophers, but the most important was Socrates, who used a very famous teaching method.
-He taught Plato, who is one of the most famous philosophers to the western world. Plato thought the world should be divided into 3 basic groups of classes.