their time of period and now.
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Greece was inhabited from the stone age, so you are asking for a summary of all recorded history. I suggest you trim your subject to where you can fit your essay in a single volume. Go to google.com and search "greek history" and see what a flood of information you get.
Well their gods and goddesses have influenced today's pop culture. Like Asclepius, his symbol just happens to be a rod with snakes wrapped around it and if you go to a hospital or to the doctor you will see the symbol everywhere since he's the god of medicine and such. Aphrodite's (can't spell her name correctly) has her symbol and sometimes name used for beauty products. Poseidon has his trident used as a symbol for cars and other sort of companies. The list goes on and on.
Philosophy was assigned great importance in Athens and, in time, throughout Greece. Among the major philosophical groups were the Sophists, who held that truth was a matter of individual opinion; this view (similar to that of the Hindus) was opposed by such famous Greek philosophers as Socrates, his pupil Plato, and Plato’s pupil Aristotle. The numerous gods and goddesses they described had human form and great beauty, though often being gigantic and superhuman. Their belief in these false gods allowed the people to live a life of extreme perversion and cruelty even to children.
Today Greece controls a land area of 131,957 sq km (50,949 sq mi) and has a population of 9,967,000 (1985 estimate. They lost their world power to the Roman Empire which continued to be influenced by the Grecian Empire.
Greek culture, prosperity, belief and influence sets the stage for the world as we see it today. 1 John 5:18,19
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