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Greece

BY TIFFANY PEARL VANCE

KAVON DALE BREWSTER

GLADYS VASQUEZ

SHIELDS

Shields are protective armors that greece people would use to protect them selves when they were at war.

SLAVERY

Slavery played a major role in ancient greek civilization. Slaves could be found everywhere.

They worked not only as domestic servants, but as a factory workers, shopkeepers , mineworkers, farm workers and as ship's crew members.

WRITING

The Ancient Greece were the first Europeans to read and write with an alphabet, which eventually led to all modern europeans languages.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Ancient greece is not just ancient history.The legacy of this classical culture has had a significant influence on culture today, from athletic specticles such as the olympics to the story telling structure of Hollywood films

BELIEFS

Many of the greek people believed that the major olympian gods or goddesses ( Zues, Poseidion, Hades , Apollo,Artemis,Aphrodite,Ares, Dionysis,Hephaestus,Athena,Hermes, Demeter, hestia,and Hera) although philosophies such as stoicism and some forms of platonism used language that seems to posit a transcendent single diety

GOVERNMENT

The greeks had a lot of different kinds of governments , because they were many city-states in Ancient Greece , and they each had their own government .In addition, peoples ideas about what made a good government changed over the time.

Economy

The economy of Ancient Greece was largely defined by the regions dependence on imported goods. Due to the poor quality of Greece's soil agricultural trade was of particular importance.

TIME PERIOD

This was followed by a period of wars and invasions known as the dark ages. In about 110 BC ,people called the dorians invaded from the north down to the west .

Geography

Greece is located around Europe and Asia . Athens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the science of the civilized world. The capital of Greece is also named from the Goddess Athena.