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Similarities Between Ancient Greece And Rome
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were very diverse and unique cultures.there are differences between their achievements, leaders,and reasons for decline. There are many differences but also many similarities between the cultures.

Both Greece and Rome had great accomplishments here are some of them. Greece created our democracy. They created our olympics too. They also created geometry. Rome created our alphabet. They created the sanitation system. Rome also created our surgical tools such as forceps, surgical scissors, and scalpel. Some things that were similar is there military and their art.

Both greece and rome had great leaders. Some of Greece's are Pericles, Leonidas, and Alexander the Great. Some of Rome's are Commodus, Julius Caesar,and Augustus. And these are only a few.
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Here are some of the reasons for decline. In Greece there was unemployment and food shortages.In Rome there was constant war and tension between the ruling class and the poor. There are similarities between the two also such as a raise in taxes and lack of loyalty of the

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