GREECE?

GREECE SUMMARY

Greece is one of the oldest countries in the world. Greece has so much history and culture threaded through its land. Greece was inhabited long ago in the Neolithic Period, but it started really civilizing later on in the Bronze Age when they discovered metal and found many uses of that such as weapons and fences. Much Greek art was formed during the Mycenaean Age, when the Mycenaean civilization flourished in economics and culture. They had beautiful palaces, weapons, textile industries, and jobs like gold smithing, ivory-carving, stone carving, and pottery. But most of Greek culture dwindled during the Dark Ages, and Greek civilization hit its lowest point. But Greece regained its fine cultures and arts in the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Ages. As time went on, Greece was ruled by different powers and had many major wars and battles, but it was all those events that makes Greece so memorable. Greece is very well-known for Greek mythology, which is what Ancient Greeks believed to be the cause to everything in life: light, water, love, etc. Greece is also known for its legendary Olympic Games, which was created in the Greek city of Olympia (hence the name "Olympics") to test to see who was the strongest of all, the fastest of all, and so on. As time passed, the Olympic Games that was merely created to bring glory to talented Greeks, became a tradition worldwide.