Ancient Greece - How It Developed Since Antiquity

Ancient Greek culture, the period heeding Mycenaean culture, completed in about 1200 BCE to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic and scientific achievement that formed an inheritance with a phenomenal impact on western civilization.


Society in Ancient Greece

The ancient Greek certainly thought of themselves as one people they had a similar religion, vernacular and society. Every four years all Greek city-states sent their young men and women to contend in Olympic Games. Political harmony was not a choice unless assessed from outside overcame the city-state of Greece.


The Greek city-state

A conventional Greek city was created around a fortified hill, called an acropolis. Here was establish the city’s chief temple, the city’s treasury and some other public construction. At the center of the city was the agora the central area where a public discussion was held and where vendors set up their stables. The agora was often flanked by colonnades. 

Most industrial outputs took place in small workshops. Household members plus some slaves would make up the department in most of these. However, one workshop in Athens for manufacturing defenses was said to have 120 employees, primarily slaves.


Agriculture in Greece 

Like all pre-modern communities, the Greek were largely agricultural civilization. They practiced the agriculture of the historical Mediterranean country. Implicating the cultivation of grains, vines and olives and keeping of sheep, goat and herd.

Plantations were extremely small- mere plans of the land of limited acres. Nobles and other landowners would own huger plantations, worked by slaves but a property of 100 acres was supposed large.


Trade in Greece

Very many Greek cities-states were found by the sea. Also, many of them constrained as they were by abrupt hills and mountains or by the sea itself endured from a scarcity of agricultural territory. 

From an initial stage in their history, accordingly many Greeks looked to the sea for their livelihood. For about 150 years after 750 BC, many city-states sent out committees of their residents to found territories on solitary coasts of the Mediterranean sea and the black sea.


The Roman Empire - The end of Greek's ancient civilization

The roman monarchy was established when Augustus Caesar declared himself the first governor of Rome in 31BC and arrived at an end with the fall of Constantinople in 1453CE. A monarchy is a political policy in which a committee of people is ordered by a sole individual.



Written By - Muskan Gupta

Edited By - Vanshu Verma