The Greek Civilization

Things to remember

• The older name for the Greece was Yunan and its capital was Athens.
• Before living in Poleis, during "Greek Dark Ages", people used to live scattered throughout Greece in small farming villages.
• Zeus was the god of god for Greek people and they also believed that each Poleis was protected by particular god or goddesses, to whom they show a great deal of respect.
• Homer, poet, wrote Iliad and The Odyssey had a great influence on western culture.
• Socrates introduced the western system of logic and philosophy through his book "Socratic Method".
• Aristotle classified the area of human knowledge into different categories such as Mathematics, Biology, Physics and ethics.