In the Ancient world, the forms of government had gradually changed from Athenian democracy to Roman Republic, then to Roman Empire and end up with Byzantine Empire. ... Roman Republic dramatically changed to Roman Empire in 31B.C, when Octavian defeated Anthony in the battle of Actium in 31B.C.Augustus was off course the first emperor of the Roman Empire, who established the idea of constitutional monarch as co ruler with the senate. ... The Roman Empire was virtually transformed into a new state, called Late Empire. ... Constantine's reforms gave the Roman Empire a new direction. ......

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With so many communities, competition is bound to arise and did leading to the Athenian Empire. The 2nd Ancient Greek period, the Athenian Empire, was from around 480B.C - 359B.C. ... The Greeks would eventually rebel, and the Romans would conquer, until in 31B.C, when the rest of the Hellenistic Kingdoms would fall to the Romans. ... 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. ... Grecian government would have great influences on oth...

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Romans identified their own gods with counterparts in the Greek pantheon and adopted Greek iconography. Greek art was more idealistic, but Roman art was generally commemorative, narrative, and based on history rather than myth (Adams p.124.). ... Because there were important differences between the Greek and Roman approaches to histor...

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The Persian Empire, from 550-333 B.C., existed in the Mesopotamian region. ... The citizens of Sparta always faced the threat of rebellion from the helots, or slaves, and the Roman Empire, as well as the Persian Empire. ... Isolationist, old-fashioned, autocratic, and terrified of overseas commitment, her ruling class could hardly have been more grotesquely unsuited for the task of running a large empire" (Ancient Greece). ... The Spartan government was weak and incapable of ruling a large empire, while the Persian government would influence other countries f...

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Greek Art: The Three Types For over twenty centuries, Greek art has been influencing art all over the world. When the Romans ruled with their large empire, they looked back to Greek society as perfect, and they modeled their art and culture on the Greek. And this kind of modeling can be traced t...

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Alexander made an empire that made history and brought him fame and happiness (SIRS Discover). ... The Greeks church is an orthodox church that is similar to the Catholicism of the Romans (SIRS Discover). The Orthodox Church was separated from the Roman Catholic Church. ... Romans portray scenes of mythology. ...

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As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common lan...

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VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great siz...

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