Ancient Greek Civilizations

The ancient Greece, place of many historical events and the birth of many revolutionary social achievements. One of the most successful civilizations in the mediterranean but never as firm as other powerful empires. Staring with the Minoans, Greece began its way to be one the tops civilized civilizations. This time brought writing, roots for religion and what would be later the greek land. To what is known today they were a pacific civilization, not like their successors, the Mycenaean. A constant conflict civilization who are called, the early greeks. With that a new way of defense was shown in the form of fortress. This were the first few steps of Greece, as time passed greeks started to colonized to become an empire. Polis/city-states were
However, this continuos conflict does not mean they were always fighting against cities within Greece. The conflict was most of the time with the Persians, many battles took place between this two titans with the result of Athens always defeating the Persians. Being in constant war made the Athenians to come up with new military tactics, attacking and defending. The invention of barracks was a great defense tactic agains any unprepared army. It would stop the enemy the necessary for the archers to punish them as much as possible and reduced their number of troops dramatically. Leaving a few troops to defeat on body to body fight. They also had what at that time was the true power on the sea, The Trireme. This helped Athens to control the seas. This military movement help protect Athens from intruders and making it a safe place for a civilized society to establish. The Greeks are well known for their many philosophers and many parts of government that we al know and implement today. The place responsible for most of these is Athens. They had a unique system of government that would be practice by the romans later on. This new system is called democracy, giving people the power to choose the path they want to go. Not giving the absolute power to just one person, but to many others. They had three parts of government; Ekklesia (assembly), Boule (council) and Archons. Is
Their parts of government were a little similar to the one in Athens but not that alike, Spartans saw the elderly people as counselors or were called Gerousian. Everyone was a soldier and as soon as thirteen any kids were able to participate in the polis matters.This was a place where woman had more freedom and could get education instead of Athens where they didn't have as many privileges. The Spartans perfected the tactic of doing the Phalanx formation. They were known for being the terror empire, although they were not that scary. The Perioeci were some of the Sparta allies but not spartan citizens. With the threat of the bad propaganda by Pericles and the union of the delian league, Sparta had to allied with Syracuse and others. Making the first appearance of the Peloponnesian league to attack and destroy Athens. Later on The Spartans became allies with the long time Athenian’s rivals, the Persians. Together along with Syracuse Athens down after a few phases. Within this phases peace was just intermittent until the full collapse of Athens. The delian league was dissolved and Athens should serve Sparta as the