1. Greece
The earliest period of Greek civilization was referred to as "Mycenaean," the reason being the mythical king of Mycenae was supposed to have been the leader of the Greek forces. ... By the 13th century B.C. however, Mycenaean Greece was showing sign of serious trouble and by 11th, the Mycenaean culture was ending, and the Greek world was a new period in history. ... The Greeks invented democracy and the modern alphabet, and laid foundations of mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, and medicine. At economical point of view, the Greeks were predominantly traders. ... Overall, the Greek&#...
Aeneas reflected very few Greek traits. ... Greek heroes were well rounded. Greeks would study music, dancing, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, physical training, and military science. Studying rhetoric, philosophy, and mathematics made Greeks more useful citizens. ... Greeks strove for arete`. ...
Lit I Thomas Paine, Reasoning the Enlightenment In the first few lines of his argument against the church and state, Thomas Paine writes: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, Roman church, Greek church, Turkish church, Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. ... This should not be interpreted as anything other than what Paine claims that he believes Jesus Christ to be a mortal man who is no different from Greek philosophers, or even a Quaker. ... He argues convincingly also that the religion itself (as distilled from The Bible) is a copy of old Greek m...
(Payne 247) The Ancient Greek style of architecture can be clearly seen in the Roman arches that they constructed with significance placed on key elements. ... (Vadnal 2) The temples were mainly built using Greek designs but the Romans changed the proportions to ones that better fit their needs. ... Gradients are still used today in physics and mathematics. ... Though many of the ideas came from earlier minds such as the Greeks, Babylonians, Persians, and Egyptians, the Romans took the engineering and architecture to greater levels of magnificence. ...
Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century A.D., (6) the Jansenists of France in the 17th century, and (7) the Puritans in England and its American colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. In fact, most of the antisexual an...
In all of their history, no great names in science or mathematics beckon to us from across the ages as those of their military geniuses or literary greats do. ... Imaginations exploded once freed from customs and brought about an architectural rebirth that was inspired by Greece. ...