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Mediterranean civilizations: Greece - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It was) a thalocrassy whose capital was Knossos
      - They dominated the Agean Sea until about 1400 B.C.
      - -The Achaeans, people assaulted and sacked Knossos, and replaced the thalassocracy
  - - - In the Archaic Period, there were vast changes in the Greek language, society, art, architecture, and politics. These changes occurred due to the increasing population of Greece and its increasing amount trade, which in turn led to colonization and a new age of intellectual ideas, the most important of which (at least to the modern Western
      - The Greek Archaic Period (c. 800- 479 BCE) started from what can only be termed uncertainty and ended with the Persians being ejected from Greece for good after the battles of Plataea and Mykale in 479 BCE.
    - - The ancient greeks invented the democracy bu it wasnot an equal society what is more. There were slaves who did not have rights and foreign people did not have all rights
    - - Established their power pacifically and by mutual agreement
        
        Democracy was consolidated internally and it was considered as the Age of Pericles
        
        A theater called was built called “Partenon”
        
        Became an artistic and cultural city.
        
        Greek theater reached its highest expression with the tragic works of authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
        
        Important philosophers: Platon, Socrates and Aristoteles
      - Established their power on the basis of conquests
        
        Military State
        
        Winners of the Peloponnesian War
      - Other facts
        
        In addition to their concepts of beauty, their statues and their architectural forms, the Greeks left us their alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician, to which they added vowels and which served as the basis for the Roman alphabet we use today.
      - GREECE ECONOMY
        
        1.Greece’s economy was mainly maritime and commercial.
        
        Agriculture was not common due to its geographical location.
        
        During the classical period, Greek agriculture was adapted to the existing relief, and in the valleys, where water was more abundant, wheat and vegetables were grown. In the lands of the mountain slopes, vines and olive trees were cultivated.
        
        From the second half of the 7th century B.C. the Greeks began to use currency in their exchanges. vv