Ancient Greece Civilization

A Ancient Greece Civilization is a mediterranean civilization that developed in the aegean archipelago and surrounding regions (from the 12th century BC through the Roman conquest).

• AKA: Classical Greek Civilization, Hellenic Civilization, Ancient Hellas.
• Context:
  • It can often be associated with Ancient Greece Mythology.
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  • It can range from being a Bronze Age Society to being a Hellenistic Empire, depending on its historical period.
  • It can range from being a Local City-State to being a Pan-Mediterranean Culture, depending on its geographical reach.
  • It can range from being a Tribal Community to being an Urban Civilization, depending on its social organization.
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  • It can influence Military Strategy through phalanx warfare.
  • It can shape Democratic Systems through citizen participation.
  • It can guide Educational Practices through classical curriculum.
  • It can foster Athletic Competition through olympic games.
  • It can integrate with Near Eastern Cultures for trade exchange.
  • It can connect to Mediterranean Civilizations for cultural interaction.
  • It can support Western Civilization for foundational principles.
  • It can establish Political Organization through city states.
  • It can develop Cultural Institutions through civic practices.
  • It can advance Philosophical Thought through systematic inquiry.
  • It can create Artistic Expression through aesthetic principles.
  • It can promote Scientific Method through rational investigation.
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• Examples:
  • Bronze Age Periods, such as:
    • Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1750-1050 BC), such as:
      • Mycenae for palatial centers.
      • Pylos for administrative systems.
  • Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200-800 BC), such as:
    • Proto-Greek Settlements, such as:
      • Early Iron Age Communitys for tribal organization.
      • Geometric Period Culture for artistic development.
  • Archaic Period (c. 800-480 BC), such as:
    • Early Polises, such as:
      • Sparta for military society.
      • Athens for emerging democracy.
  • Classical Period (c. 480-323 BC), such as:
    • Major City-States, such as:
      • Classical Athens for democratic government.
      • Classical Sparta for military state.
    • Greek Leagues, such as:
      • Delian League for naval alliance.
      • Peloponnesian League for military confederation.
  • Hellenistic Period (323-30 BC), such as:
    • Successor Kingdoms, such as:
      • Ptolemaic Egypt for greco-egyptian synthesis.
      • Seleucid Empire for hellenistic expansion.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Persian Empire, which emphasizes imperial administration rather than city-state autonomy.
  • Phoenician Civilization, which focuses on maritime commerce rather than philosophical inquiry.
  • Egyptian Civilization, which centers on divine kingship rather than civic participation.
  • Roman Republic, which prioritizes legal codification rather than philosophical speculation.
  • Carthaginian Empire, which emphasizes mercantile expansion rather than cultural hellenization.
• See: Ancient Greece Mythology, Mediterranean Sea, Greek Dark Ages, Classical Antiquity, Polis, Greece_in_the_Roman_era, Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander The Great, Western World, Early Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ancient_Greece Retrieved:2024-12-11.
  • Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories. Prior to the Roman period, most of these regions were officially unified once under the Kingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC.In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period.

    Three centuries after the decline of Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze Age Collapse, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and the colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included the Golden Age of Athens and the Peloponnesian War. The unification of Greece by Macedon under Philip II and subsequent conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great spread Hellenistic civilization across the Middle East. The Hellenistic Period is considered to have ended in 30 BC, when the last Hellenistic kingdom, Ptolemaic Egypt, was annexed by the Roman Republic.

    Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on ancient Rome, which carried a version of it throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe. For this reason, Classical Greece is generally considered the cradle of Western civilization, the seminal culture from which the modern West derives many of its founding archetypes and ideas in politics, philosophy, science, and art.

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