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Greece

Background

Greece was a civilization based around the Aegean Sea and the larger Mediterranean Sea. Referring to Greece as a unified civilization is very interesting because of the various regional and competing city-states that comprised it. Unlike other forms of government in the ancient era, the city-states of Greece were largely autonomous for most of their history and often at war with each other.

However, when the threat of external invasion from the Achaemenid Persian Empire, they quickly unified and mobilized into an effective force that pushed the Persians out of Greece for good.

Known as the father of western civilization, Greece was renowned for its cultural influence and its poets, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, artists and many others are well known to this current day. In fact, if it were not for the Muslims, most of these works would have been lost to the ravages of time and war.

Origins

Mycenaean Greece

See Mycenaean Greece.

Archaic Greece

Classical Greece

Rise of the City-States

Greece - Greece (700-600 BCE)

Greece (700-600 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)

Greece - Greece and Phoenicia Map (550 BCE)

Greece & Phoenicia Map (550 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)

Peloponnesian War

Greece - Greece (431 BCE)

Greece (431 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)

Peloponnesian War

Achaemenid Empire

Greece - Greece (500-479 BCE)

Greece (500-479 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)

Achaemenid Empire

Greco-Persian Wars

Greco-Persian Wars

Alexander the Great

Greece - Greece (362 BCE)

Greece (362 BCE) - Historical Atlas (1923)

Hellenistic Greece

Sources

Cultures

Youtube: Mycenaeans and Phoenicians


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