Alexander the great was indeed great not only was he a great leader by always being in front of his troops going into battle but he also was brave and courageous as you can see in document E.Alexander brought many people to his kingdom and protected it with two thousand people at the end of his life. In his life span he founded seventy cities and he died at an early age of thirty-three. Also after his death his empire lived on for ten more years before eventually crashing. While Alexander was in
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The beliefs of the ancient Greeks were full of the violent storms, volcanoes and earthquakes that were a part of their experience. Greek mythology is based on legends passed down through generations by word of mouth, so there are many versions of Greek mythology and not all of the stories agree with one another. advertisement Myths explained nature, taught moral lessons, and provided entertainment. Greek poets created epic stories based on ancient legends. An epic is a long poem about great heroes
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Throughout the course of history, many have debated what qualities make a person great. Historians have deemed both kings and peasants as successful. Nations have thought of war generals and peaceful protesters as heroes. Scholars have thought of educated and illiterate persons alike as revolutionary. Yet, greatness can be questionable, like with the character Jay Gatsby from the Great Gatsby. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows greatness in Gatsby through his charisma and his determination.
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Alexander was only 20 years old when he became king of Macedonia. “Alexander the Great was one of the most famous conquerors in all of history.” Alexander’s death caused many breakdowns. There were many disputes about the empire he left behind. Who has going to manage the empire and retain it. Everything fell apart without Alexander. Nobody saw the empire ever being as a well as when Alexander governed it, but people tried. This period where several people founded their own dynasty and them constantly
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I think that Ancient Greece had the biggest contribution on society. It has brought us the Olympics, democracy, science, and art. Without most of these things Modern society would be very different then it is now. The Olympics is an event that shows up every 2 years. Including both the summer and winter Olympics. Originally the Olympics was first created to honor the Greek God Zeus. They were first held around early 700 B.C.. This has a big impact on society today because it is still being held
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citizens of whatever political party for the truth of the assertion, that no man ever carried into public life a more unblemished pecuniary reputation, than that with which I undertook the office of Secretary of the Treasury;” – Alexander Hamilton The year is 1791, Alexander Hamilton is the Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton had “spent the preceding two years crafting a visionary financial system for the new nation that was designed to form a strong central government…” (Cogan 389). Hamilton’s life
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Research Part Of Notes, Introduction: Greek and Roman mythology is quite supposed to tell us the ways human race thought and felt untold ages ago.Through it, according to this view, we can retrace the path from civilized man who lives so far from nature, to man who lived in close companionship with nature; and the real interest of the myths is that they lead us back to a time when the world was young and people had a connection with the earth, with trees and seas and of flowers and hills, unlike
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‘Without Love’ is a song from the 2007 musical ‘Hairspray’. It is sung by Link Larkin, Tracy Turnblad, Seaweed Stubbs and Penny Pingleton, in Act 2. The song explains the troubles the teens have gone through to find love with each other, as they all come from different worlds, that normally shouldn’t be together, Tracy being a plus size teen, contrasting with Link being a teen actor, and Seaweed being of a race, who wasn’t allowed be with Penny, a Caucasian teen with an overbearing mother. This
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The ancient Greeks influenced and brought many new ideas into the world that we still use today in the modern world. From these Greeks, I have chosen two that have made the biggest contributions to their time and the 21st century. The first man is, Archimedes of Syracuse (287 – c. 212 BC) who was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. The other man is, Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II (460 – c. 370 BC), who was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles
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Alexander the Great and his armies conquered much of the known world between 334 and 323 B.C. to create a great empire that stretched from Greece to Asia, Egypt, and the Persian empire in the Near East to India. And with the death of the great conqueror, Alexander, came the birth of the era that would be known as the Hellenistic Age. This era was a time of power, conflict, and great cultural influences that paved the way for change and development. This era brought change and artistic influences
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