CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Athens was on the edge of the continent so it was unsafe.
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Athenians preferred to sell goods to other civilizations.
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Athens welcomed people from all over the world in order to learn from them.
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Athens was not well protected because it didn’t have a strong military.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It had monarchy in the beginning and later had developed into oligarchy. The age of Pericles is called as the Golden Age of Athens. During the time of Pericles, art, literature, science, philosophy and other fields of knowledge flourished. As a result of this Athens was called as The School of Hellas by Pericles.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pericles is perhaps best remembered for a building program centred on the Acropolis which included the Parthenon and for a funeral oration he gave early in the Peloponnesian War, as recorded by Thucydides. In the speech he honoured the fallen and held up Athenian democracy as an example to the rest of Greece.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pericles called Athens as ‘The School of Hellas’. ‘Hellas’ means ‘Greece’.