Post 2 Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Historians say that Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BC by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus.  Rome was the biggest city of Its time with a population of one million people; the Rome civilization was established on Italy, and the city of Rome was the capital of this empire, which is considered one of the largest empires in the ancient times, during the Roman empire, they dominate western, eastern and southern Europe, North Africa, Balkans and Asia minor, this can tell us all the regions they conquered on Europe, Asia and Africa. They used to have to have monarchs and they change their government system to Aristocratic Republic. They had a great organization, excellent leaders and artists as Julius Caesar, Cicero. They created a government system called res Publica , This kind of government have influenced countries on actual times like France and the U.S. The Romans have influence the justice system that we have nowadays in many countries like our Mexico. Rome have influence on culture, philosophy, religion, coliseums (architecture)too.

Ancient Greek

There isn’t a exact  time about when the Ancient Greece was form, some dates according to researchers mentioned that this civilization was establish from the 8^th century BC until the 6^th Century AD. The Greek civilization has influence of other cultures like the Assyrian, Phoenician, and Egyptian. The classical Ancient Greece is divided by ages, the Greek dark age on 1100 to 750 BC; the archaic period from 750 to 500 BC , on this period the culture was develop, painters, sculptures, writers,thinkers, philosophers. On the classical period from 500 to 323 BC, this period was mark by the annexation of Greece to the Roman Republic. Athens and other Greek cities were conquer by the Sula General in 88 BC. The Greek cities were ruled by kingdoms; after the 6^th century the Athenians founded the first world democracy, they did that to put an end to the Aristocracy .Only the native born were consider Greek citizens, but later Pericles introduce changes to this law. From 800 to 400 BC, Greek increased Its population from 800,00 to 13 million people estimated. Most of the words that we use nowadays have Greek background, on philosophy, art, literature, Math, geography, cosmos, weather, architecture, physics, quemestry and in many other areas we have Greek influence. On sports can’t be the exception for example they invented the most important sport event worldwide which is the Olympic Games, the marathon which was the distance that a deliver person on Greece run from one place to another, that distance is respected on actuality, for these and many other facts we have to consider the importance of the Greek civilization .