As a system of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world. However, Sparta's dominance was not to last.

That move was in retaliation for the decision by the far-left Greek government to reject new ... After all, that would be democracy. The EU shrugged off the French and Dutch defeats and proceeded ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece.

This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord ...

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Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

‘Galaxy’, ‘Europe’, ‘Democracy’, even ‘Acrobat’ - they’re all based on Ancient Greek words ... It’s the form of government that allows people to vote on who gets to be in ...

Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city-state) to 323 B.C. (the death of Alexander the Great). Emphasizes the development of democracy ... of Roman Republican government. Readings ...