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Dec 7, 2015 · Amman Citadel has been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic period i.e. somewhere between 10,000 to 2,000 BCE. It was fortified during the Bronze Age i.e sometime around 1800 BCE. It has been known by names like Rabath Amman and Philadelphia.
Mar 5, 2010 · Ancient Greece saw advances in art, poetry and technology, and is known as the age in which the polis, or city-state, was invented. The polis became the defining feature of Greek political life...
The city-state’s ancient Greek name, polis, was derived from the citadel (acropolis), which marked its administrative centre; and the territory of the polis was usually fairly limited. City-states differed from tribal or national systems in size, exclusiveness, patriotism, and passion for independence.
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- Macedonian Expansion. At the end of the classical period, around 360 B.C., the Greek city-states were weak and disorganized from two centuries of warfare.
- The Hellenistic Age. Alexander’s empire was a fragile one, not destined to survive for long. After Alexander died in 323 B.C., his generals (known as the Diadochoi) divided his conquered lands amongst themselves.
- Hellenistic Culture. People, like goods, moved fluidly around the Hellenistic kingdoms. Almost everyone in the former Alexandrian empire spoke and read the same language: koine, or “the common tongue,” a kind of colloquial Greek.
- Hellenistic Art. In Hellenistic art and literature, this alienation expressed itself in a rejection of the collective demos and an emphasis on the individual.
May 19, 2021 · According to Apollodorus, the king had named the city Cecropia after himself, while its previous name was Acte. Nevertheless, the city had not officially received the protection of a god, and, consequently, its name could still change.
Nov 13, 2013 · Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), literature (Homer and Hesiod), mathematics (Pythagoras and Euclid), history (Herodotus), drama (Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes), the Olympic Games, and democracy.
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The existence of city-states in Greece that were autonomous and independent had a number of consequences for the subsequent history of the Greek world and the world in general. The first positive consequence is the rise of democracy in Athens.
