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question about Greece in world history?

1. How was the treatment of peasants and foreigners relate to the progression of government? 2. How did Greek culture develop? 3. How did the Greek culture influence the modern world? 4.How did Greek philosophers affect the modern world? these are the 4 question about greece plz help me. i'll give you highest point if you do all this questions. its about ancient greece

Public Comments

1. Sounds to me like someone does not want to do their homework. All those question require essay answers.
2. MC SNIPER---- Why don't you try doing your own homework instead of having US do it for you???
3. well i don't know if i qualify to an exact answer to your questions but the constitution of the USA is based on writings of Aristotle every star on the sky has Greek name all the programs for the space also the language and how to make wards president Reagan used Demosthenes speeches theater art painting building colonies and human relations and lastly look around Washington dc everything has Greek architecture even Lincoln is copy ed from statue of Zeus from Olympia !!
4. First of all my friend for your first question you have to be specific about the period you want to know. In modern , Byzantine or ancient Greece? For your other questions it is proper to divide greek history in 5 sections with their starting chronologies. Prehistory 300 000 B.C Antiquity 1050 B.C Byzantium 324 A.D Ottoman 1453 A.D Modern 1821 A.D So for your second question i can only answer you right now for the antiquity period and you will find the rest.Thera are 5 periods. Geometric, archaic, classic, hellenistic, roman. CULTURE -ANTIQUITY The culture of the GEOMETRIC period shares the same general features with other manifestations of that period, such as society and economy, with which it is interrelated. At its outset it bore the signs of the Mycenaean tradition, whereas the subsequent period of the Dark Age left few visible remains, to be able to talk about it with some certainty. In the Geometric period the arts knew a relative flowering, pottery in particular, in which innovations are numerous and conspicuous. The literature of the period was mainly oral, but the epic poetry crystallised towards the end of the period thanks to the re-introduction of literacy. As concerns cult the Mycenaean legacy was ingrafted with new elements, owing both to the arrival of new tribes and the contacts with the East. During the ARCHAIC period the fundamental changes that determined the face of Greek culture took place. The reacquisition of writing combined with social developments gave a new boost to literature. The epic underwent a second flourishing, whereas at the same time the systemization of ideas regarding the world and man created Ionic philosophy. However, the understanding of the world could now have a subjective or experimental character, a fact which can be seen in the various and vivid -even for the contemporary reader- works of lyric poetry. The contacts with Anatolia enriched the shaping of Greek art, inspired original compositions and liberated the imagination of the Greek artists and craftsmen. Pottery and metalwork, as practical arts, were the first to benefit from the prolific moulding with eastern elements and very soon they developed an iconographic repertoire magnificent both in size and in variety. The study of the human form became the centre of sculpture, thus reflecting the decisive transposition of Greek thought from the theoretic to the anthropocentric perception of the world. Many rituals and forms of worship were born or crystallized during the Archaic period. The religious practices were closely connected to the social developments and needs, which were very often codified or interpreted. Through sacrifices, purifications, oblations, initiations and festivals, the Hellenes tried to harmonize the primitive fear of the divine with the rational approach and trust in the human experience. This view, which was not greatly altered until the prevalence of Christianity, is probably the most important accomplishment of Archaic Greeks and continues, up to today, to form one of the poles of inner contradiction of Western civilization. CLASSICAL period.The birth of classical civilization was deeply rooted in the adventurous social, economic and constitutional restructuring that took place in the Archaic period.Democratic institutions were shaped and put in place. There were changes in attitudes to religion. An anthropocentric style of education evolved. And there were extraordinary achievements in art and literature. All this signalled the appearance of classical civilization in Athens. During HELLENISTIC period, the sociopolitical changes and the appearance of new economic and intellectual centres in the East, influenced theatre, which perhaps constituted the most depended -from the other cultural happenings- form of art. The new genre that was created, was conventionally called New Comedy, which derived elements both from Old Comedy -mainly from Aristophanes' last two comedies Ecclesiazusae and Plutus- and from Middle Comedy, but even from the tragic author Euripides. Compared to ancient political comedy, the Hellenistic one differentiates in its themes, since the political issues are abandonded and the interest starts to be focused on situations inspired from daily activities and from the presentation of the human characters of the period. Furthermore, as far as its structure is concerned, the division into acts was established, whereas the choric songs ceased to be connected with the plot of the play and are used as interpolatives.An important representative of the New Comendy, who in fact wrote the only work preserved almost intact, is Menander (342/1-291/0 B.C). It is his comedy Dyskolos, which was taught at the Lenaea in 317/6 B.C. The content of the rest of the comedies, which have not been survived, is known from testimonies of other works of the period, mainly from references in historiography.The influences that the New Comedy exercised to the Latin poets, especially to Plautus and Terence, contributed decisively to the development and formation of the modern European drama. ROMAN period Discernible from as early as the first millenium B.C., the fertile cultural interaction between the Etruscans and the Hellenes of southern Italy and Sicily in terms of Roman traditions and mores, contributed to the development of the multidimensional intellectual and religious phenomenon known as Graeco-Roman culture.The Roman Empire, stretching across the continents of the Mediterranean - Europe, Asia and Africa - and inhabited peacefully for over four centuries by people of differing cultural traditions, with its highly organized administrative and political system, made for the penetration of Graeco-Roman culture into Europe. About how philosophy developed; Greatest philosophers, theories. PHILOSOPHY In Ionia of the 6th century B.C. the economic, social and political condidions which allowed the birth of philosophy were combined for the first time. Miletus, the metropolis of many colonies, received various original incentives, which led to a new perception of the world and the problems that are related to it. The first three philosophers were citizens of Miletus and were known as natural philisophers because the object of their philosophy was the natural world. Thales (624-547 B.C.), Anaximander (610-546 B.C.) and Anaximenes (585-525 B.C.) explicitly denied the mythological and religious interpretation of the world and tried to explain its origin in a materialistic way, based that is, on an original substance, the motion and the changes of which create every object and phenomenon. The three thinkers answered the ontological question of philosophy with materialistic criteria, but they did not raise at all the question of the theory of knowledge, since they considered the possibility of knowledge of the world obvious and unquestionable. Each one was systematically engaged in sciences, such as mathematics and astronomy, and established the basis of the Greek exact sciences. Nothing has survived from their philosophical work and all we know about it comes only from references and criticisms of posterior philosophers. Thales seems that he was familiar with the achievements of the Egyptians and Chaldaeans, but his philosophy was never completely detached from the practical problems of his time. He considered water a primary element, in which the world floats. By that he followed a tradition already expressed in Homer in a mythological way. If we accept the information about Thales, from a poet of the 5th century B.C., then he was the first to support the immortality of the soul, a fact that must be connected with his sojourn in Egypt. Although very few things from those referred to Thales must be considered real, many particular discoveries are attributed to him, such as the solstices and their circles, the five celestial zones, the source of lunar light, the cycle of the floods of the Nile and others. Anaximander was considered Thales' student and it seems that he travelled a lot in his lifetime, and that he played a leading part in the establishment of the Milesian colony of Apollonia on the Black Sea. He considered the Infinite to be the first principle of the world that is usually interpreted not as a material mixture of everything but as an inexhaustible initial cause. It is said that his scientific achievements include the first map and the conception of the spherical model of the sky, where the earth with the shape of a cylinder held the central position. He developed rationalistic observational thought and, irrespective of the factual mistakes, he helped to develop mathematics and astronomy. Pythagoras followed the same path. On the other hand, his doctrines about the fiery nature of stars and the succession of worlds preannounce the cosmic deity of Xenophanes. Anaximenes, the student of Anaximander, believed air to be the primary substance of the world. According to his theory, the alternation of natural forms and conditions was owed, to heating or cooling and the condensation or dilution of air. In his cosmological pattern the earth was flat and shallow, whereas the firmament was a kind of transparent membrane, onto which the stars were nailed. Heraclitus, another Ionian philosopher, supported, developed and enriched these materialistic principles of the natural philosophy with dialectic elements. in the Classical period the arts of the beautiful and the good and their ideal aesthetic expressions became for the first time a subject of philosophical and scientific observation. the search for universal interpretations of the basic concepts and values of life - morality, goodness, beauty - found its expression in philosophy. During Hellenistic times, philosophy, gradually abandoned the pursuit of scientific knowledge, was directed towards the discovery and teaching of leading the good life and became the art on life. This practical usefulness defined to a certain extent the tendencies of philosophy, since metaphysics was overridden by philosophical pursuits, thus giving way to ethics. Athens still remained a pole of attraction for anyone interested in philosophical education. The four important and competitive schools of philosophy, which were founded in the 4th century B.C., were : Plato's Academy (387 B.C.), the Peripatetic school of Aristotle (335 B.C.) -that was created from Academy-, Stoa Poecile of Zeno (306 B.C.) and the Garden of Epicurus (301 B.C.). With the exception of the Peripatetic school of Aristotle, which declined already from the 3rd century B.C., the others prospered during the whole Hellenistic period. These schools had a strong cosmopolitan character, since the majority of their directors and the largest part of their students -who stayed in Athens- were foreigners, mostly Greeks from all around the world and Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and later Romans also. Even St Augustine called Athens "divina civitas" (divine city) and "mother or midwife of the liberal arts". According to the school they were committed to, philosophers were characterized as academics, peripatetics, stoics, epicureans, cynics, etc. Even if someone belonged to a school he was free to attend lessons in the others. Besides epicureans -who considered it disgraceful- the others allowed their students to change over from one school to another, if they wanted to. You can study from the site referred in the source and check about byzantium, modern greece and also examine thr diferrent sections in culture as atchitecture, arts, religion etc. Also about peasants and gornment the society section will be very helpful. Only after reading and understanding all that you will be in the position to compare and contrast today's culture and Greece's. You can google up "Modern world and ancient greece" and sth wi come up. I mean that you need some contemporary studies for Greece's contribution to the world and not a main source as a history book. Good luck.