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Ancient Greece was one of the first civilisations of the world and many other civilisations and empires have been based off of it. Greece was the birth place of many things including Democracy, Literature, Philosophy, Art, Drama/Theater, Architecture, Sport, the Olympics,Wine and Culture and Medicine.
They were some of the greatest warriors the world has ever seen, the only people that became better warriors than them were the Romans, but even their civilisation was based on the Greeks, in fact the romans ancestors that founded the city that the family of Romes founders Romulus and Remus lived in were descendants of the survivors of Troy after it fell.
Undoubtabley the Spartans were the greatest warriors in Greece. Boys were trained from the age of seven till they were fifteen to be warriors, this is referred to as the upbringing. Despite not going through the upbringing girls were trained in a similar way, they were trained to be the perfect mother and were taught things like wrestling.
Even though growing up in Greece, especially Sparta was dangerous you had to survive infancy first. In fact you death sentence could have been signed minutes after you were born, over the whole of Greece if a child was born ill or a family couldn't afford another child you would be left in the wilderness to die, especially if you were a girl. However Sparta was the only one of the Greek states where it was the city elders not the parents that decided if a child was week or not, regardless of gender and whether the family could afford it if a child was deemed to be strong enough to live the mother had to raise it. However there was a loop hole to this (for everywhere but Sparta), if a family left there child in the wilderness but they know a couple who were childless but for whatever reason had no children they could tell them where the child was left and they would retrieve that child and raise it as there own.
The five strongest city states were:
Athens
Sparta
Megara
Argos
The Trojan War
The Trojan War was started when the Trojan prince Paris went to Sparta, where he fell in love with king Menelaus wife Helena, who was famous for her beauty. When Paris left Sparta to return to Troy Helena went with him. The reason that the whole of Greece went to war with Troy to get her back was because before he father chose who she would marry she had had scores of suitors, so Odysseus (a famous Hero and Prince of Ithica) came up with the idea that all the suitors would have to honor and defend Helena's marriage no matter who he chose to which they all swore they would. Also Menelaus's Brother Agamemnon married Helena's sister Clytemnestra and became king of Mycenae - Menelaus had humbly sent his brother to petition Helena's father for her hand in marriage.
Menelaus went to his brother and asked him to summon all the lords that had sworn an oath to defend Helena's marriage no matter who she chose. in short they all had to honor their oaths, went to war with troy - it lasted ten years - and won and burnt troy to the ground. used the Trojan horse to get inside the city - it was a great wooden horse that people hid in that was taken inside the city by the Trojans because they thought it was a gift for Poseidon, his temple was inside of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War#Origins_of_the_war
Menelaus went to his brother and asked him to summon all the lords that had sworn an oath to defend Helena's marriage no matter who she chose. in short they all had to honor their oaths, went to war with troy - it lasted ten years - and won and burnt troy to the ground. used the Trojan horse to get inside the city - it was a great wooden horse that people hid in that was taken inside the city by the Trojans because they thought it was a gift for Poseidon, his temple was inside of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War#Origins_of_the_war
Undoubtabley the Spartans were the greatest warriors in Greece. Boys were trained from the age of seven till they were fifteen to be warriors, this is referred to as the upbringing. Despite not going through the upbringing girls were trained in a similar way, they were trained to be the perfect mother and were taught things like wrestling.
Even though growing up in Greece, especially Sparta was dangerous you had to survive infancy first. In fact you death sentence could have been signed minutes after you were born, over the whole of Greece if a child was born ill or a family couldn't afford another child you would be left in the wilderness to die, especially if you were a girl. However Sparta was the only one of the Greek states where it was the city elders not the parents that decided if a child was week or not, regardless of gender and whether the family could afford it if a child was deemed to be strong enough to live the mother had to raise it. However there was a loop hole to this (for everywhere but Sparta), if a family left there child in the wilderness but they know a couple who were childless but for whatever reason had no children they could tell them where the child was left and they would retrieve that child and raise it as there own.
The five strongest city states were:
Athens
Sparta
Megara
Argos
Corinth
Sparta and Athens are the two best known states of Greece. Sparta was renowned for its military power and Athens was known for its superior navy, whereas now days its known as the birthplace of philosophy and democracy.
Sparta and Athens are the two best known states of Greece. Sparta was renowned for its military power and Athens was known for its superior navy, whereas now days its known as the birthplace of philosophy and democracy.
The Greeks had a lot of different values and ideas of what was acceptable in society and what wasn't. One of these things was homosexual relationships between young boys and older men, they were actually encouraged and accepted to an extent but there were strict rules about how they should be conducted and how long they should/could last.
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Another thing the Ancient Greeks were known for is their gods. Like the Ancient Romans and the Ancient Egyptians they had multiple diates, however there were 13 main ones, 12 lived on mount Olympus and the thirteenth Hades lived in the underworld.
The Greeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patroclus
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