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4. What do we know about the Battle of Salamis? A. It ended with the Greeks’ victory. B. It put an end to the Persians’ invasion. C. It took place in the mainland of Greece. D. It forced the Persians to abandon their ships. ...
And yet we will perhaps, at the end of our lives, still feel that the tasks were worth undertaking. Through them, we'll have achieved something deeper and more interesting than happiness. With the word Eudaimonia in mind, we can stop imagining that we are aiming for a pain-free existence...
discovered in Mycenae in large graves resembling wells (so-called shaft graves) contained a large number of valuable objects (weapons, ornaments, gold masks, and so forth), attesting to the growing power of the Achaean dynasties as early as the middle of the 17th and the end of the 16th ...
[#paragraph3]Second, this internationalism spelled the end of the classical Greek city-state—the unit of government in ancient Greece—and everything it stood for. Most city-states had been quite small in terms of citizenry, and this was considered to be a good thing. [#highlight4]The fo...
Greece (gris) n. Ancient Greek,Hellas.Modern Greek,Ellas.a republic in S Europe at the S end of the Balkan Peninsula. 10,707,135; 50,147 sq. mi. (129,880 sq. km).Cap.:Athens. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997,...
In 2017, the Global E-Waste Monitor projected that the amount of electronic waste generated by the end of 2021 would reach 52.2 million metric tonnes .It is estimated that the value of the gold in our garbage exceeds €10 billion ($11.2 billion). On top of that, the many other precious...
The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BCE and end in 404 BCE with the complete defeat of ! ___. a. Sparta b. Thebes c. Athens !d. Macedon !! Answer: c SHORT ANSWER 26. Explain the difference between the early Greek Archaic kouros figure and its Egyptian ! prototype. Answer: The early...
The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. There was a general pattern of development, which varied somewhat in each particular instance. Monarchies yielded to aritocracies, which were in turn replaced by tyrannies. On the ...
It's no surprise that the influence and impact of Ancient Greece resonates today. As defined byBritannica, the phrase refers to the northeastern Mediterranean region in the era between "the end of the Mycenaean civilisation (1200BC) and the death of Alexander the Great (323BC)", when it wa...