[POL200Y5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 46 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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The ancient greeks: ancient greeks is associated with the democracy of athens. For most of their history, the greeks were at war with themselves: the hay day only lasted for 150 years. By doing so, they created a beautiful culture that later died out. They glorified humanity, and had firm belief in human achievement: they are important ancient people for the western civilization, the classical period: 500 bc- 330 bc; we need to go back to the late archaic period 800-500 bc. The archaic period (800-500bc): the transition from dark age greece to the archaic period, this period followed the dark age. This was the age we don"t know anything. Before that, we knew about some of the things that took place. However, in the dark age, nothing was written: it was the time of small communities, it was peaceful and less contention, less wars.
