why the greeks made greek temple?
87055
The temples in Greece were made to honor various Greek gods and goddesses, and were designed around statues of the god or goddess as a rule.  You can read all about the Greek gods and goddesses in Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology, which is available from Dover Press.
623466
Well, Greece is becomingf a country with most sites from classical time (~25 centuries ago). The museums are not that well organized, but the findings there are the best, dating thousands of years ago!
500756
"Pantheon" in Greek refers to the total group of gods.  It literally means "all gods" in Greek.  There would be different pantheons for different cultures depending on the group of gods worshiped.  The word was later applied to a major temple in Rome (which still stands as one of the architecturally most important buildings of the ancient period).  Inside the Pantheon were statues or shrines for each of the Roman gods, hence the use of "Pantheon" for its name.
776824
Wonder Date Builder Destroyed Cause \nGreat Pyramid of Giza 2550 BC Egyptians still standing still standing \nHanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babylonians after 1st century BC earthquake \nTemple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BC Lydians, Greeks 356 BC fire \nStatue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks 5th-6th centuries AD fire \nMausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus 351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 AD earthquake \nColossus of Rhodes 292-280 BC Hellenistic Greece 224 BC earthquake \nLighthouse of Alexandria
316758
Greeks invented Greek writing.\nEnglish writing is a compilation of many different languages.
755452
I don't know what they meant but Greece has an awesome history and culture, so take it as a compliment, whatever their intent.
775618
Greece was more powerful in the ancient world. Uniting East and West for the first and only time. There are still Greek speaking tribes in India(albe it only a few thousand) beacause of Alexander the Great. He crossed the Indus river and even founded present day Karachi, in Pakistan which was of course then named Alexandria.\nPersia was decimated by the Greeks and Greek soldiers took Persian wifes to spread the Greek culture. Another Greek city is Marsala, presently in France and known as Marsaille. Tactically they were brilliant and ***The Battle of Salamis was a testament to intelligence and tactics of the Acient Greeks***please look this up as it's a great account of a historical sea battle of the where the Persian Fleet in record numbers was decimated by the vastly inferior Greeks in terms of numbers and weaponry/ships.\n\nFrom India to France, no empire spread as far or ever will again.\nCrossing so much land on foot and conquering it all then succumbing to either poisoning or an illness. \n\nYour last three lines say it all...they had it all and the ancient greeks challenged, took it, burned the capital, and were accepted when they conquered generally, and made it better and spread their own vision to more of the world and this is evidenced today in numerous ways...it has to be greece easily in this one...\n\negypt vs greece would have been fairer...\n\n***additional - just read your additional comments - very good lol...
768773
There was more than one revolutionary social concept developed by the Greeks, and those concepts changed the world:\n\n1. A "public" religion that did not compete with, or replace, private religious beliefs or practices (this was the "glue" that bound together the fiercely independant Greek city-states into a cohesive whole)\n\n2. The concept of natural causes being the explanation for what happens in the natural world (as opposed to divine retribution or reward)\n\n3. The elevation of individuals (excepting, of course, women and slaves) to "citizens'  who participated in public affairs, including law-making\n\n4. Ethics - the idea that there was a way to tell right from wrong without divine authority, decided my rational humans\n\n5. Secular law
1084259
Nile comes from the ancient word in greece
77152
Greek mythology distinguishes itself from the others in many reasons, but the most interesting fact to me is that these gods we´re not in an unreachable plane. They descended among the humans and participated directly in their choices and actions, deciding the path of history for them in numerous cases.
69584
well the greeks like all other ancient civilisations have festivals according to there beleives/faiths, weather changing,sports, some official festives, festivals to commemorate heroic deeds and ofcourse the festivals of there red letter day. if you want full description of the point, then they are as follows:\n1.believes/faith:\nlike all other ancient nations they used to do festivals to please the gods, which were masters of there lives, like greeks used to celebrate the festival to please god of war, MARS,so that they would live in peace and have good agriculture. then there was god of rain and many other. well you know that ancient man was afraid of every other thing which makes him scared, like snake worshiping, which hindu people do, its only bcuz they are afraid of it. by saying so, ancient man also used to worship thing which give him benefits.. so to please these imaginative gods and things, they made festivals and greeks used to do the same.\n\n2.weather changing:\ngreeks were the first to name different months, and also they started festivals to celebrate the change of weather. they used to worship apllo god as they claim it to be the master of world and its choking, so they used to put flower and seasonal fruits and vegetables so as to please him.\n3. sports:\nlike you know the great olympic games.\n4. officail festives:\nlike the crowning of new king or death or birth of sibbling of royal family etc.\n5. festives of heros:\nlike the festival to commemorate, alexander the great or acchelis etc.\ni guess thats enough.....i hope that would satisfy you......will it?
246499
All of the Greek City States maintained political, cultural, religious, comercial, and linguistic ties with the cities that founded them, and all were distinctly Greek.  During the time no one would confuse Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, etc... with Persia, the Northern Germanic peoples, the people from Russia, or others and that is why it is unified under the title of Greek Civilization.  \nHope that helps clarify it for you.
878253
All the Greek culture you can stand ... enjoy!\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/greekculture.html
291715
Zeus\n \nSupreme Greek god and head of the Greek pantheon. In addition Zeus functioned as a sky god or weather god, and as a god of justice and freedom. Son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea. Consort of Hera. His cult probably dates back to the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations. According to Homer, he lived on Mt. Olympus in Thessaly, where he gathered the other gods under his dominion.After his birth, Rhea saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed by Kronos along with his siblings by substituting a stone dressed in swaddling cloths. She then hid the child in a cave on the island of Crete, where the Kouretes performed a dance in which they clashed their weapons about him in order to drown out his cries. His nurse while in Crete was Amalthea, either a nymph or a goat. Upon reaching maturity, Zeus overthrew the Titans and forced Kronos to disgorge his siblings. Zeus then cast Kronos into Tartaros and established himself as head of a new pantheon in which he and his siblings had the most prominent roles. He divided dominion over the world with his brothers Poseidon and Hades.Zeus's sexual prowess was legendary, and he either seduced or forced himself upon numerous goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women,fathering countless children in the process. He assumed many different forms in pursuit of his numerous affairs. He appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, to Danae as a shower of gold, and to Europa as a white bull. Ares, Eleithyia and Hephaistos were the most prominent of his children by his official consort Hera, whom he originally seduced in the form of a cuckoo (although some sources say that it was Hera who seduced Zeus). He fathered Apollo and Artemis by Leto, Persephone by Demeter, Hermes by Maia,Dionysos by Semele, the Horai and Moirai by Themis, the Muses by Mnemosyne, and Herakles by Alkmene. Athena was also said to have been born from his forehead after he had swallowed Metis. Zeus may also have had a homosexual relationship with Ganymede, whom he made the cupbearer of the gods. The cult of Zeus was of universal significance in the Greek world, although his cult was often secondary in individual locations to the local tutelary deity, such as Athena in Athens. Greek households typically had statues of Zeus in their forecourts,and he was often associated with mountaintop shrines. He had temples in every Greek city, two of the more notable being iAthens and at Olympia. His most important festival was at Olympia. The oracle at Dodona in Epirus was dedicated to Zeus. He was depicted as a bearded and physically imposing man of middle age. His most common attributes were the thunderbolt and the eagle.\nAnd finally because so many asked, here is what we think is a complete list of the women he seduced or rape as required to satisfy his lust. Remember there were some men too, but why put them in a list of women? \n\nZephyros\n \nGreek god of the west wind. Son of Astraios and Eos. Believed to live in a cave in Thrace. Known to the Romans as Favonius. \n\nTyche\n\nGreek goddess of fate and fortune. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Okeanos and Tethys. In Pindar, Zeus is given as her father. She was often associated with Agathos Daimon, the "Good Spirit", and with Nemesis, the goddess of justice and vengeance. Tyche was depicted with a rudder or a cornucopia, and often with a wheel as a symbol of the transitory nature of fortune and of the fickle character of the goddess herself. She had a temple at Argos, where the first set of dice were said to have been invented. Her temple at Antioch remained intact at least until the reign of the Roman Emperor Theodosius (AD 379-95). \n\nTriton \n\nMinor Greek sea god. He was depicted as a merman, with the upper body of a man and the tail of a dolphin or a fish. Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. According to Hesiod, he lived with his parents in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea. The Greeks often thought of there being many Tritons rather than just one. His attribute wa
1096177
The first difference would be their geographical location.  Mesopotamia was located in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.  Greece is located along the Aegean Sea.  As a result of their locations, the Mesopotamians were primarily farmers and the Greeks were mostly fishermen and herders too.  The mountainous soil of Greece made it hard to grow crops so they couldn't establish a surplus of crops and had to rely more on fishing and herding.  While both worshiped a pantheon of gods, the gods were different in that some of the Mesopotamian gods were half human and half animal.  The Greek gods weren't.  Both were city states and the two well known of the Greeks were Athens and Sparta.  If my memory serves me correctly, Ur was one of the major city states of Mesopotamia.  The Mesopotamians wrote in symbols called Sanskrit which looks like a bunch of wedged dashes and the Greeks used a letter alphabet based on the Phoenicians alphabet.   The Greeks were more advanced scientifically, militarily and philosophically. The Greeks also were the first democracy and our system of government is based on the Greeks' ideas.   However, the Mesopotamians get credit for the first written law code-- Hammurabi's Code.   I can go on and on, but I think this touches on the main differences between the two.
250930
Listed In Order!!!\n\nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu \n\nThe Great Pyramid of Giza \n\nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II \n\nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n\nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias \n\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n\nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature \n\nThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria \n\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n\nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island \n\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\n\nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city \n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria
372691
There were two main styles (or "orders") of Greek architecture, the Doric and the Ionic. These names were used by the Greeks themselves, and reflected their belief that the styles descended from the Dorian and Ionian Greeks of the Dark Ages, but this is unlikely to be true. The Doric style was used in mainland Greece and spread from there to the Greek colonies in Italy. The Doric style was more formal and austere, the Ionic more relaxed and decorative. \n\nThe more ornate Corinthian style was a later development of the Ionic. These styles are best known through the three orders of column capitals, but there are differences in most points of design and decoration between the orders. \n\nMost of the best known surviving Greek buildings, such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, are Doric. \n\nThe Erechtheum, next to the Parthenon, however, is Ionic. The Ionic order became dominant in the Hellenistic period, since its more decorative style suited the aesthetic of the period better than the more restrained Doric. \n\nSome of the best surviving Hellenistic buildings, such as the Library of Celsus, can be seen in Turkey, at cities such as Ephesus and Pergamum. But in the greatest of Hellenistic cities, Alexandria in Egypt, almost nothing survives. \n\nFor more information you can visit http://www.crystalinks.com/greekarchitecture.html\n\nGood luck!