History Video Blog #18

Posted on February 18, 2010 by admin

Ancient Greece was dotted with city-states, the most famous of which, to us, are Athens and Sparta.  Ancient Greece was not a nation in our sense of the word. There was no central government, and to an ancient person this would be unthinkable since each of these cities had their own dialect, cultural heritage, economic system, and preferred form of government. Greece was a region that comprised the  Greek peninsula so familiar to us today, as well as the Western part of what is today Turkey, and the islands of the Aegean Sea. When the Greeks thought about the world that was dear to them, they thought about the rocky lands that surrounded the Aegean Sea–sort of a “Greek Lake.”

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  • http://twitter.com/culfinatan/status/9465770154 Dr. Liam Atchison

    New Post: Some of the earliest colonists were Greek? http://is.gd/8UAlo The Raft #hvb

  • http://www.elfnaturals.com andrew elf

    FREELAND WASHINGTON.
    Located on Whidbey Island Washington the town was started in the early 1900′s as a commune by its socialist’s founders, hence the name “Freeland”.

    Who won the million points last week?

  • http://www.emmahouse.org admin

    Freeland: A socialist utopian community. Anyone else famous who comes from Freeland?

  • http://www.readwithjoy.com Dee Anne

    Manhattan, KS. I’m afraid to tell what little I know about the founding of Manhattan, because who knows where I heard it in the first place! But, as far as I know, a group of people were traveling on the Blue River and got stuck on a sandbar. They decided to stay and build a town. And someone told me that there was an argument about the name. Some wanted it to be New Boston, Manhattan won out. And that’s all I can remember. I love my town (and should probably know a bit more about it.) Look Liam, no smileys today!

  • http://www.modernera.us/wordpress culfinatan

    yes, it is true.