| 1. The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems written by Homer, that give us hints of life from 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C.
2. The mountains helped shape the development of the Greek civilization by having natural borders between the city-states, which left the Greek people having a strong sense of pride from there homeland. 3. Spartan males and females served the military in many ways, the females served the Spartan by training very hard to be strong, so that they could produce strong and healthy baby boys, the men fought in the army and took place in all government activities. 4. Athens was a democracy because there government was a direct democracy, where a large number of male citizens took part in day-to-day affairs of the government. 5. The results of the Persian war, although Persia won the first battle, Greece won the war all together, by joining the city-states together. 6. The Peloponnesian war affected Athens by a terrible plague breaking out in Athens, killing at least a third of the population, including Pericles himself. 7. The Socratic method is a way to help others seek truth and self knowledge. 8. the extent of the lands conquered by Alexander the Great includes Persia and India, almost all of the known world. 9. The cultures that were blended to form the Hellenistic civilization were Greek, Babylonian and Egypt. |
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