Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ancient Greek civilization was a civilization of a distinctively urban character, as the majority of the ancient Greek lived in cities and towns (according to Hansen 2006, the total walled area of all Greek cities totalled 500 square kilometers, that was nearly 40 times the walled area of late Imperial Rome*, enough to house about 60-70% of ...
Corinth was the commercial capital of ancient Greece (at least until it was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC) because it possessed two seaports on the Saronic and Corinthian Gulfs. All traders passing through from Asia to Italy and vice versa were required to use coinage minted only by the city which it then taxed, making it extremely wealthy ...
There were many more. Most famous city-states beside Athens and Sparta are probably Thebes and Corinth. Thebes is famous mostly for its victory against the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC which ended Spartan hegemony and established short-living Theban dominance over other Greek cities.
It's an old adage that farms will survive if the cities disappear, but if the farms go away the city dies. To a certain extent that's true, BUT in the case of ancient Greece it's much more two-way. Without the city and its prosperous classes, there would be no one to be the armored core of an army to defend those farms. They die or become enslaved.
The American Mafia has strong roots in street gang culture and American street gangs go as far back in major US cities to the colonial era. Ethnic/ religious groups of young men are going to band together if they feel threatened by other groups and said bands may very well venture into crime if they believe criminal activity is profitable which ...
Sharing common mythic ancestors helps cities be friends - even non Greek cities invented a connection to Greek mythology post Alexander in order to be part of the "in" group of inter-polis relations. Argos ended up being the mother city of cities far older than itself! Some myths also supported rivalries, like the Iliad and anti-Persian sentiment.
Hi all, this is my 1st post here. i have been reading about Ancient Mesopotamia... i was wondering... was there a period early in Egyptian history of warring city-states? I can understand perhaps why in ancient Greece - due to the huge number of islands- the City State evolved.... But - why did...
Ancient Greek and Roman cities were too small to have separate neighborhoods divided by social class as modern American and Canadian cities do. Also, why all the hundreds of escavated Classical Houses were upper class neightborhood houses while the Archaic houses were small and squalid, hence lower class houses?
In the case of Greece, another important factor besides it being a city-state culture, is that their cities were linked together through the Mediterranean sea which allowed very high volumes of trade (for example, Athens imported 80% of its grain, from several regions such as the cities around Black Sea and from Lybia and Egypt), while ...
US house sizes progressed roughly as this: 1780 AD - 450 sqf 1850 AD - 700 sqf 1900 AD - 950 sqf (700 to 1200 sqf) 1950 AD - 1000 sqf 1970 AD - 1500 sqf 2000 AD - 2000 sqf In Ancient Greece from the 9th century BC to the 4th century BC the typical house increased from 500 square feet to 2,500 square feet at the first floor according to the ...