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Name of civilization: Athens

Dates: 3000 B.C.-A.D. 300, approximate

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G overnment
 * a system of rule and law that reign over the civilization.
 * athens was a city-state but had a democracy.
 * Pericles rule for t30 years not because he was a monarch but because he was elected by the people of athens which started the first democracy in history.

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 * The Ancient Greeks were a polytheistic people, and their religion consisted of the Ancient Greek mythology.
 * Their main gods were those who were believed to live on Mount Olympus, including Zeus, king of the gods and god of the sky, Poseidon, god of the sea, and Hades, god of the Underworld, who was believed to live not on Mount Olympus but in the Underworld.
 * The Greek gods are similar to humans, one example being that they take human form, but they are immortal and far more powerful than any actual person.
 * The myths that are very famous today told the stories of the gods, other deities, heroes, and the creation of cities and people.
 * Athenian economy was centered around trade.
 * Almost all of the major city-states were centered around the same body of water, the Aegean Sea.
 * Much of the trading was done indirectly with the rising Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia, whose wealthy people craved imported luxuries.
 * The rise of trade came with a need for writing, resulting in the Greek alphabet, taken from the Phoenicians, their trading partners. (Haywood 136)
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A rts
 * They had the Theater of Dionysus, who had plays to entertain, of works by playwrights Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus
 * The Athenian playwright Menander had dominated the New Comedy in the ancient greek world, he teases theater historians with shining shards of wit, which exists in the original manuscripts

T echnology

S ocial Class Structure
 * Athenian women were not treated that well during ancient times, most of the time, they were not allowed to be seen in public.
 * An Athenian Women would stay in the house all day in the womens quarters with all the other women, they had no acess to any mens room, they were forced to sleep away from the men, and were to sleep with the children.
 * During ancient times in athens, one thing that determined what social class you are in is the citizenship of athens.
 * If you didn't have citizenship, your say wouldn't really be accounted for.
 * sometimes poor people can have high seats in government, the poorest could sit in the Ecclesia(the popular court) to make sure the high offices are doing their job.

Summary of your civilization's achievements: Ancient Athens made many advances that evolved the world into what it is today. Athens was the first democratically ruled city-state in history. The Romans used many of the Greek myths in theirs, and Greek mythology is still famous. Athenian playwrights are credited with creating a format for plays that went on to be used widely throughout history. Evidence of their architecture can still be seen today. Ancient Athens achieved a great deal as one of history's most successful ancient civilizations.

Works Cited Page:(we can't seem to indent properly...)

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"Athens." //Ancient Greece and Rome//: //An Encyclopedia for Students//. Ed. Carroll Moulton. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. 81-84. //Gale World History In Context//. Web. 17 Sep. 2011. Document URL []

"Greek citizenship." //World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras//.ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

"Greek mythology." // World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 Sept. 2011.

Haywood, John. //The Ancient World//. London: Quercus, 2010.

"Menander." // World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

"Scopas." //World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras//.ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

"Theater of Dionysus in Athens." Image. Pictorial Library of Bible Lands. // World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras //.ABC- CLIO, 2011. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_technology