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Western Civilization : History of Ancient Greece
166 students
What you'll learn
- Learn best with engaging auditory and visual tools
- Organized Lessons to help you study for an exam
- Memorize large amounts of information about Life in Ancient Greece
- Identify the most important facts in your ancient Greek history class
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Course content
17 sections • 17 lectures • 54m total length
Requirements
- Strong interest in history
- Curiosity
- passion of discovery
Description
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek History from the Greek Dark ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Roughly three centuries after the Late bronze age collapse of Mycenean Greece. Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the period of Archaic Greece and colonization of the mediterranean Basin.This was followed by the period of Classical Greece,an era that began with the Greco-Persian wars lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Due to the conquests by Alexander the great of Macedonia,Hellenistic Civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean sea. The Hellenistic period came to an end with the conquests and annexations of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic which established the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire.
In this course you will learn everything about Crete and Mycenae, colonization and Greek cities, wars between Persia and the Athenian empire, Sparta and the Peloponnesian war, Alexander's conquests and the Hellenistic kingdoms.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in Greek History