They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. ... Thucydides tried to explain the effects of politics on historical events. ... Isocrates and Demosthenes were writers of orations and important political figures. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ... Women and slaves had no political rights, even in the democracies. ...

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It shows that the people led a lifestyle that included agriculture, curiosity about nature and a developed political structure that was needed to organize the building of these structures. ... Every will of the divine was considered correct because of the political circumstance. ...

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The Romans and Greece had many similarities, mainly because the Romans, a war society, who would adapt a lot of culture from the Greeks, and would even appoint Greeks into the Roman Political System. ... With minds like Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Greece would use its government to expand its intelligential ideas of economy and wealth. ... Social class was tied to wealth and not so political control, unless you were to have real clout. ... With people such as Homer, Plato, Sacrates, Aristotle, and many other people, Greece was able to evolve through knowledge. Philosophy, Science, L...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School