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Greek Society was mainly broken up between Free people and Slaves, who were owned by the free people.

The social classes applied to men only, as women all took their social and legal status from their husband or their male partner. Women in ancient Greece were not permitted to take part in public life.

Democracy was introduced by an aristocrat, Cleisthenes.

This was followed by a period of wars and invasions, known as the Dark Ages

Delphi was inhabited since Mycenaean times (14th - 11th c. B.C.) by small settlements who were dedicated to the Mother Earth deity. The worship of Apollo as the god of light, harmony, and order was established between the 11th and 9th centuries. Slowly over the next five centuries the sanctuary grew in size and importance. During the 8th c. B.C. Delphi became internationally known for the Oracular powers of Pythia.

Dodona is an important ancient Greek oracle, second in fame only to Delphi. It is located in a strategic pass at the eastern slopes of the imposing Mt. Tomaros, close to the modern city of Ioannina in western Epiros. It was dedicated to Zeus and Dione, and the Greeks believed it to be the most ancient of oracles.

Archaeological evidence testifies to the island's habitation since the 7th millennium BC After the 5th millennium BC we find the first evidence of hand-made ceramic pottery which marks the beginning of the civilization Evans, the famed archaeologist who excavated Knossos, named "Minoan" after the legendary king Minos.

The sanctuary at Olympia (Ολυμπία) is positioned in a serene and fertile valley between the Alpheios and the Kladeos rivers in western Peloponnese, in Elis. It was the host of the Olympic games for a thousand years in antiquity.

Greece is a parlia

Macedonians were defeated

Macedonia was made part of the Roman Empire and men were sent from Rome to rule it

A hundred and fifty thousand of its inhabitants were sold into slavery and the state was made a Roman province.

the other states of Greece still continued fighting with one another

a Roman army was sent against them

the Greeks were completely defeated

Athens, Thebes, Sparta and the other Greek states became, like Macedonia, parts of the Empire of Rome.

Greece passed, in the Middle Ages, under the rule of Turkey

about seventy-five years ago that she revolted from Turkey and became once more an independent country

is still teaching the world

Alexander never lost a battle, never, not even one

became ill and died. He was only 32 years old.

It was Alexander who spread the Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean

n empire located to the north of

He was a

Macedonia was a

Macedonian prince.

Greece.

culture might not have survived

was Aristotle.

Alexander had many teachers

He loved the Greeks.

and interesting and talented

Aristotle thought the Greeks were clever

Aristotle had a grea

effect on Alexander and what he believed.

taught all the people he conquered about the ancient Greeks

shared their stories, their myths, their gods, their language - just as he had been taught.

It was Alexander who spread the Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean.

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His teachers tried t

ot merciful

teach him that a Macedonian king was n

He believed in the Greek gods

Greek gods.

Evidence of slavery predates written records, and has existed in many cultures.[3] Prehistoric graves from about 8000 BC in Lower Egypt suggest that a Libyan people enslaved a San[disambiguation needed ]-like tribe.[16] Slavery is rare among hunter–gatherer populations, as slavery is a system of social stratification. Mass slavery also requires economic surpluses and a high population density to be viable. Due to these factors, the practice of slavery would have only proliferated after the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution about 11,000 years ago.[17] The earliest records of slavery can be traced to the oldest known records, which treat it as an established institution, not one newly instituted. The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1760 BC), for example, stated that death was prescribed for anyone who helped a slave to escape, as well as for anyone who sheltered a fugitive.[18] The Bible refers to slavery as an established institution.[3] Slavery was known in civilizations as old as Sumer, as well as almost every other ancient civilization, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.[3] Such institutions were a mixture of debt-slavery, punishment for crime, the enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment, and the birth of slave children to slaves.

owerful between 2000 BC and 146 BC

The influence of the Ancient Greeks are still felt by us today. The major impact in our lives today are in the arts, in philosophy, and in science, math, literature and politics.

Trial by Jury

Greek Myths

Democracy

The word 'democracy' is Greek. It means 'government by the people. We have a form of democracy in Britain, and this is a legacy of the Athenians and their

Democracy in 508 BC.

Homer's writing

Classical Period

great philosophers

Athens was governed by a democracy

wars between Sparta and Athens

rise and then death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.

Hellenistic Period

united together

death of Alexander the Great

lasted from

until

Rome conquered Greece

146 BC

two main city states

ruled much of ancient Greece

Athens and Sparta

fought each other in the Peloponnesian Wars.

ended with the

to protect the Greek lands