Non Western Blog
Greece History I chose to write about Greece because it is one of dream vacation spots. Greece is so beautiful to me, I have always wanted to go because of the dreamy sunsets and the architecture. "During the so-called “Greek Dark Ages” before the Archaic period, people lived scattered throughout Greece in small farming villages. As they grew larger, these villages began to evolve. Some built walls. Most built a marketplace (an agora) and a community meeting place." They developed governments and organized their citizens according to some sort of constitution or set of laws. They raised armies and collected taxes. And every one of these city-states (known as poleis) was said to be protected by a particular god or goddess, to whom the citizens of the polis owed a great deal of reverence, respect and sacrifice. (Athens’s deity was Athena, for example; so was Sparta’s.)" "The Dark Age was a transitional period between the fall of Mycenaean Greece of the Bronze Age, an