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This 3 page paper discusses the contributions the Greeks and Romans made to the development of Western civilization. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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so vast that all we can do is touch on it. Its well known that the Greek civilization rose before the Roman; and that the latter took it over and
"borrowed" those concepts that it liked, making them its own. The Romans were bright and imitative and took what was best from the Greeks. The Greek classic period was from
about 500 - B.C. to 300 A.D., during which the first studies were made of science, the arts and literature, as well as to the "practice and philosophy of government"
(Poiycratis, 1991). It was during this time, especially between 500 B.C. and 200 B.C. that the Greeks began to experiment with the idea of democracy as a guiding principle of
statehood (Poiycratis, 1991). It was also about this time that the Greeks established philosophy as an independent field of study; Greece has of course produced some of the greatest philosophers
who ever lived including Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. In 350 B.C., with Aristotle as his tutor, Alexander the Great began his conquest of the region and spread Greek ideas
as far as Egypt and Syria (Poiycratis, 1991). Among other accomplishments he founded the city of Alexandria and "crossed the unknown route to the head of the Persian Gulf" (Poiycratis,
1991). But even Alexander couldnt stop history and another power was rising in the region: Rome. The Romans "overthrew their foreign rulers, the Etruscans, and established their hegemony"; afterwards they
conquered Spain, Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, as well as the northern shores of Africa, including Egypt (Poiycratis, 1991). In 170 B.C. they conquered the Greeks and "adopted their culture and
technology, making contributions to engineering, government administration, and the law" (Poiycratis, 1991). The result was a "Graeco-Roman period" during which these cultures dominated the Mediterranean (Poiycratis, 1991). The Romans
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