Ancient Greek weather
Greek weather and environment: a map of Greece Weather changed with the seasons The weather in ancient Greece, like the weather in most places, changed with the seasons. Greek weather [...]
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Economy of ancient Greece
The economy of ancient Greece: A Greek man doing carpentry (Athens, 400s BC) The Greek word "economy" The Greeks did not have the same idea of an economy that we [...]
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Hellenistic economy – ancient Greece
Hellenistic economy: a sculpture of a woman selling vegetables at the market Mercenary soldiers After the Peloponnesian War was over in 404 BC, everyone in Greece was poorer than before, [...]
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Ancient Greek coins from Thebes
Silver coins from ancient Thebes Why are Thebes's coins different? Each Greek city-state minted their own kind of coin, just like countries mint their own coins today. Coins help to [...]
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Ancient Greek coins
Ancient Greek coins: an Athenian silver coin with Athena's owl How Greeks minted coins Beginning around 600 BC, each Greek city-state minted (made) its own kinds of coins. (They got [...]
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Greek economy in the classical period
Classical Greek economy: Sailors rowing trading ships (Athens ca. 550 BC) Greek mercenary soldiers The trends of the Archaic period in Greece continued into the Classical period, about 500-400 BC, [...]
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Economy in Archaic Greece
Archaic Greek economy: A black-figure vase showing a blacksmith at work (Athens, about 550 BC) Not much trade in the Dark Ages During the political collapse of the Greek Dark [...]
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Ancient Greek clothing
Ancient Greek clothing: a Greek baby in a diaper, from Hellenistic Egypt What did Greek kids wear? Like Egyptian or Mesopotamian babies, Greek babies often wore nothing at all, but [...]
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Stone age Greek sculpture
Stone Age Greek sculpture: Clay female figure from Franchthi cave When was the earliest Greek sculpture? As in other parts of Europe, the earliest sculptures from Greece are small figurines [...]
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Women in Severe style Greek sculpture
Severe style: Athena But just as in the Archaic period, all Greek Severe Style sculptors carved women with their clothes on. Women also did much less moving around, and had [...]
