The Greek Civilization

The Greek civilization was the first European civilization. At this point in time religion is not prevalent or influential. The European religion was borrowed from the Middle East. There are two main contributions from the Greek civilization. They were politics and secular. Polis the Greek word for city state is where politics came from. They had modern politics with the first democracy. It was divided into city-states that rule themselves in a democratic fashion. With …

…lead to the decline of the Greek civilization. Macedonia then enters. They were agricultural people ruled by a king. It was a large city that was half Greek. Alexander the Great, their king, conquered Greece and Persia. He dies young and his empire is dived between his generals. The Hellenistic civilization started that was a Greek-Persian culture. The Classical Greek culture suffers because of Alexander’s conquest. This civilization results in the downfall of Greece.