The Rise of Greece

Ashley  Nekia  Lewis

Brazosport Collage

Clute, TX

Alewis1615@Brazosport.edu

Dr. Andersen-Wyman

Humanities 1301

4 January 2018

Dear Dr. Andersen-Wyman,

I am pleased to submit an original research article entitled The Rise of Greece and this manuscript builds on our prior study to determine the evolution of this unique topic.

In this manuscript, I will show that there are many important things about the rise of Greece. History is often a story that always turns out to be cyclical in nature. With every changing and sometimes the decline of civilizations we must consider important factors or otherwise known as matrix factors.

Thank you for your consideration,

Ashley Lewis

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Ashley Lewis

Humanities 1301

Dr. Andersen-Wyman

4 January 2018

                                        The Rise of Greece

History is often a story that always turns out to be cyclical in nature. With every changing

and sometimes the decline of civilizations we must consider important factors or otherwise

known as matrix factors. With the onset of the empire we must first look to the Persians (625

BCE- 486 BCE). This empire was vast and expanded from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus

River. Thus the actual geography ranged from coastal to arid dessert which was rich in semi

precious stones, gold, silver and copper which would prove very useful when Darius decides to

mint his own gold coins for currency. Compared to the Greek Polis city states (800 BCE- 300

BCE) which was predominately coastal had a rocky terrain. Farmers and Sheppard were seen as

the backbone of society even though the merchants kept the city wealthy. The influx of trade and

commerce was vital to the Polis, without it Greece would surely starve, as Greece was already in

a constant state of overpopulation. The Greeks of the polis were implanted in the land that they

cultivated and owned, it was a way of life. Unlike the Persian Empire that sought out to merely

dominant and conquers as much land and people as possible the Greek polis was not a place but

a group of people that identified with one another. Persians had an empire of a various array of

peoples, they had horseback messengers on roads that they built (that would later be used by the

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Romans), centralized governments that was a kingship, and subjects that were allowed to

continue native customs –such as the Jews. The every strong feelings of appealing to the general

populace was also very evident in the roman empire with Tiberius, trying to limit land

ownership. Greeks had a different view, if you were not of the polis you were nothing to society

and could be killed at will.

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As Greece reached the peak of its prosperity Rome which lye barely to the west slowly

started out its rise as a civilization. The Greeks focused their lifestyle on artwork and literature

while against the Romans who settled their lifestyle upon warfare and leadership. without

making plans, might upward thrust very progressively as an empire. quickly earlier than Christ

most of the encompassing towns and countries have been at peace under Rome's rule.Early

Romans saved no written facts. Their history is so combined up with fables and myths that

historians have difficulty distinguishing reality from fiction. Historians simplest understand of

early works of Roman history, the records of Livy and the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of

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Halicarnassus. The old legends say that Romulus based the town in 753 BC. Romulus become a

legendary person, however there is a few proof that the kings who're stated to have followed him

clearly existed. shortly before 600 BC several Etruscan princes from conquered Rome

throughout the Tiber River. Taraquinius Priscus, the first of the Etruscan kings, tired the city’s

marshes. Servius Tullius, the second Etruscan king, made atreaty with the Latin cities, which

stated Rome as the head of all Latium. The ultimate king,Tarquinius Super bus, was a tyrant who

antagonistic the humans scorned religion. below the rule of thumb of the Etruscans, Rome grew

in importance and electricity. outstanding temples and extraordinary public workshad been

constructed. alternate prospered and with the aid of the end of the sixth century BC Rome had

grow to be the largest and richest city in Italy. The antique Latin aristocracy ended up rebelling

towards the Etruscan kings. Junius Brutus led the riot in opposition to Tarquinius Superbus in

509 BC. The younger republic become now set out on its long profession of just about constant

conflict and conquest. at the time it did no longer seem destined to rule the civilized global. It

became simplest a tiny city-nation, although women in fact play clearly no public function other

than a spiritual one within the political and social existence of historical Greece, they dominate

the innovative existence of Greek guys to a degree almost unparalleled within the Western

tradition.... Greek writers used the woman–in a fashion that bore little resemblance to the lives of

actual women-to understand, express, criticize, and test with the problems and contradictions in

their lifestyle.(Foley).girls in historic Greece had been believed to have robust emotions with

susceptible minds. accordingly, they had been given a kyrio, or mum or dad, to protect them

from now not handiest detrimental themselves but from others as well. This guardian, the nearest

male start relative or when applicable, husband, managed most of her lifestyles, as her

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citizenship entitled her simplest to the possibility of marriage and to her husband’s spiritual

associations. even as having the potential to very own her own apparel, earrings, and slave, as