The Eight Ages of Greece – A Complete History

The oldest civilization in Europe. Cradle of Western philosophy. The first European alphabet. A place where human sculpture was perfected. A place where democracy was first achieved. Where these famous athletic games began. So many distinctions for such a small territory. Where do we begin to tell the story of this important nation? At the beginning, of course, and don't stop until the end! In this video, I dare to tell the WHOLE history of this land and its inhabitants. It's an incredible story. This is the history of GREECE.

TIME STAMP
0:00 Introduction, titles
5:15 p.m. Bronze Age Greece
8:00 a.m. Archaic Greece
14:59 Classical Greece
11:04 p.m. Hellenistic Greece
31:49 Greece in Roman times
38:16 Byzantine Greece
44:21 Ottoman Greece
49:06 Greece in the modern era
54:10 Summary: Greece through the ages
55:34 Exit

In this comprehensive documentary on Greek history, I will cover the entire period, from the Bronze Age civilizations of Minoan Knossos and Mycenae, through the Dark Ages that followed, and up to the Age archaic which saw the Doric people reborn in an even more spectacular way. culture of a rich Greek mythology of heroes and gods, ornate pottery, the Oracle of Delphi and an alphabet still used today and which was the father of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets used throughout the world.

The cultural peak occurred in the classical era of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, where Athens first experimented with democracy, and where the Spartan phalanx resisted the Persians at Thermopylae, where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle brought new thinking to the world, creating Western philosophy. , where the architecture of temples and theaters reached sublime levels such as those of the Parthenon, and where the sculpture of the human form was perfected.

The feuding polis or city-states were eventually united under Philip of Macedon, but it was his son, Alexander the Great, who would continue to export rich Greek culture to the rest of the eastern Mediterranean and beyond the Middle East when he conquered the greater region. great Persian Empire in 336 BC. After Alexander, his conquests were divided among his generals, the greatest being Ptolemy and Egypt, which only ended three centuries later with Cleopatra.

The Greek phalanx, however, was ultimately no match for the Roman legions, and the Greek world was absorbed into the Roman world for several centuries, until Actium in 31 BC. But /“Greece defeated its crude conqueror/” and the Romans adopted many of the customs and philosophies of their captors.

While the Pax Romana ended in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, with the sack of Rome, only the Eastern Roman Empire, centered around Constantinople, would survive, for another millennium under the name Byzantine Empire. But betrayed by their Christian brethren during the Fourth Crusade during the sack of Constantinople, the empire was so weakened that it was finally removed by the Ottoman Turks two centuries later during the Ottoman conquest of 1453.

The next four centuries were the darkest hours for Greece under Ottoman rule, but salvation would come with the help of Western powers with Greek independence in 1832. The modern Greek state developed over the 80 following years to reach its present size, albeit with the disastrous setback of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-22. A brutal occupation by the Axis powers during World War II was immediately followed by a civil war that left political scars between left and right for decades, with the lowest point being under the Colonels' regime from 1967 to 1974. Greece joined the EEC (EU) in 1982 and enjoyed the benefits of membership, but suffered greatly from the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity measures that followed. Despite this, Greeks still enjoy their best quality of life in centuries.

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