The Greek Influence
Even though The Greek culture, Fine art, and knowledge are famous around the world, mainly from the Hollywood productions and the comic books, little do people know about the fact that the Greek culture is the main factor for the development of Europe and the progressive political and governing views around the world.
Greeks started forming states and developing science and philosophy long before the birth of many modern day nations. Some 4000 years ago the Greeks established the main cities of Athens, Troy and Sparta -centers for trade with the Asian peoples and the Africans. Years later, the domination of the Greek thought had already influenced half of the civilized world and the whole of Europe. The literature has its origins from the Greeks, the theatre arts and the advanced architecture were first born in Ancient Greece. Philosophers, mathematicians and poets developed the knowledge that nowadays keeps being used as an engine for the advance in these spheres. The natural truths were known to these ancient people who first developed and used the main principles of democracy and ruling with the power of the nation.
After the years of wars with the Persian Empire and the Arab tribes, somewhere around the 9th century BC, the Greeks colonized the lands of what is now Italy and along with the Italic and the nomad tribes in the area established Rome -the center of the largest and strongest empire ever known to mankind. The Greeks transformed the Peninsula giving the knowledge they acquired and thus the Roman Empire became a formation from the Greek foundations and experience. Later the Byzantine Empire and the Empire of Alexander the Great followed that example thus becoming the largest and strongest Empires after the Roman -they were all established on the knowledge from the Greeks.
From then till modern days, these cultures have influenced and still fascinate the modern man -the Greek knowledge and wisdom are thus the foundations of the modern day public relationships and common knowledge.
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