Greeks and romans (500 BCE - 500 Ce)
P: Greece had a Republican form of government with lots of city states. Evolved into a democracy.Greece had The Persian Invasions and the League against Persia. The Greek City States occasionally sent envoys to each other in order to negotiate specific issues, such as war and peace or commercial relations. Rome also had a republic that was governed by a complex constitution that emphasized a separation of powers and checks and balances. The Senate had the highest authority. Rome expanded its territory from central Italy to the entire Mediterranean, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and Greece.
E: Both economic systems were based on agriculture.
Greeks mainly had small self-sufficient wheat farms but due to bad agricultural practices they couldn’t feed themselves. Large estates produced wine and olive oil which became a large necessity. Greeks didn’t trade because they found it degrading. Romans imported their wheat and annexed provinces that could provide them with it. Rome traded a lot and their chief exports were wine and olive oil. Both used coins but Rome decreased the value of their coins to fund to Empire.
R: Both were polytheistic and and myths surrounding those Gods. They had essentially the same Gods but had different names for them, i.e. Jupiter and Zues. Both had a similar concept of an afterlife. Both prayed to their Gods and had temples in honor of those Gods.
S: In Rome you had the lower class, plebeians, and upper class, patricians. In Greece you had metics, citizens, and women. Both had slaves and freedmen. In Greece women were not considered citizens, in Rome they were. Women in Greece were in charge of managing the household and producing children, they could not sell property, and they were subject to their fathers even after marriage. In Rome women were subject to the head of her or her husbands family and they could own and sell property as they pleased. Both societies were divided according to wealth.
I,A: Roman artists liked to focus on making the sculture or painting look exactly like how they did in real life while Greek artists seeked to make their sculptures look like the ideal human with perfect mathematical proportions. Romans also used art to promote and glorify their emperors. Romans became masters of the arch and dome and the arch became huge for the invention of aqueducts and bridges. Most Greek literature were myths and most Roman literature told of recent and past war triumphs. Rome had a tuition-based school system and in Greece education was extremely important and there were two forms of it, formal and informal. Formal meant you had a hired tutor or went to a public school and informal meant you had an unpaid teacher teaching you in a non-public place.
N: Both are Mediterranean countries but Greek was more divided. Greek city-states were separated by hilly countryside or mountainous terrain but they were all located by water. Rome was near a river and had mountains but they were much easier to cross than the mountains is Greece. Both lived on the countryside as farmers.
E: Both economic systems were based on agriculture.
Greeks mainly had small self-sufficient wheat farms but due to bad agricultural practices they couldn’t feed themselves. Large estates produced wine and olive oil which became a large necessity. Greeks didn’t trade because they found it degrading. Romans imported their wheat and annexed provinces that could provide them with it. Rome traded a lot and their chief exports were wine and olive oil. Both used coins but Rome decreased the value of their coins to fund to Empire.
R: Both were polytheistic and and myths surrounding those Gods. They had essentially the same Gods but had different names for them, i.e. Jupiter and Zues. Both had a similar concept of an afterlife. Both prayed to their Gods and had temples in honor of those Gods.
S: In Rome you had the lower class, plebeians, and upper class, patricians. In Greece you had metics, citizens, and women. Both had slaves and freedmen. In Greece women were not considered citizens, in Rome they were. Women in Greece were in charge of managing the household and producing children, they could not sell property, and they were subject to their fathers even after marriage. In Rome women were subject to the head of her or her husbands family and they could own and sell property as they pleased. Both societies were divided according to wealth.
I,A: Roman artists liked to focus on making the sculture or painting look exactly like how they did in real life while Greek artists seeked to make their sculptures look like the ideal human with perfect mathematical proportions. Romans also used art to promote and glorify their emperors. Romans became masters of the arch and dome and the arch became huge for the invention of aqueducts and bridges. Most Greek literature were myths and most Roman literature told of recent and past war triumphs. Rome had a tuition-based school system and in Greece education was extremely important and there were two forms of it, formal and informal. Formal meant you had a hired tutor or went to a public school and informal meant you had an unpaid teacher teaching you in a non-public place.
N: Both are Mediterranean countries but Greek was more divided. Greek city-states were separated by hilly countryside or mountainous terrain but they were all located by water. Rome was near a river and had mountains but they were much easier to cross than the mountains is Greece. Both lived on the countryside as farmers.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greecevsrome/ss/GreecevsRome.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdXXK_PTkUU#t=388
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Roman_Republic/
http://www.timemaps.com/history-ancient-greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdXXK_PTkUU#t=388
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Roman_Republic/
http://www.timemaps.com/history-ancient-greece