KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / GREEK CIVILIZATION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / GREEK CIVILIZATION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / GREEK CIVILIZATION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

·      Greek Civilization dates back to 800 BC

·      Greece is in the European continent

·      Greece is one the coast of Mediterranean Sea

·      The civilization existed in Greece, before the Greeks was known as Aegean Civilization

·      Early Greek immigrants were known as Ionians

·      Greeks were collectively known as Hellenes. Hence their civilization was known as Hellenistic Civilization

·      Homer, a blind poet, composed Greek epics ‘Illiad’ and ‘Odyssey’

·      Homer lived in the 9^th century BC

·      Democracy originated in Greece. Greek Democracy was direct democracy.

·      Greek civilization reached the Zenith of its progress during the period of Pericles, a ruler of Athens. His age is considered as the ‘Golden Age of Athens’. Under Pericles the city of Athens got the name “The School of Hellas”.

·      The civilization of Greek city states is known a ‘Classical civilization’

·      Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Mascedonia etc… were the major city states in Greece

·      Pindar was a famous Greek Lyric Poet

·      Aesceles was the greatest of the Greek dramatists, who wrote famous tragedies.

·      Greeks were the first to introduce Vowels in the alphabet

·      Euripides  and Aristophenes were the other famous Greek dramatists

·      Herodotus who, wrote about the Persian war was a Greek historian. He is considered as the Father of History

·      Demosthenese was a world famous Greek orator

·      Thales of Meletus is considered as the father of Greek Mathematics

·      Pythagoras who made great contributions in Geometry was a Greek

·      Anaxagoras, Euclid etc…., were famous Greek Mathematicians

·      Hippocrates, who is considered as the father of Medical Science was a Greek

·      Leopold Van Ranke, a German historian is considered as the father of Modern history

·      Thucydides another great Greek historian wrote the history of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta

·      Socrates the Greatest of the Greek philosophers was forced to commit suicide by drinking Hemlock a poison, in 399 BC

·      Zantippee was the wife of Socrates

·      Plato was the student of Socrates

·      Plato’s original name was Aristocles

·      Plato founded a university named ‘Academy’ in Athens

·      Republic was the famous work of Plato

·      Aristotle was the famous student of Plato

·      Aristotle was the tutor of Alexander the Great

·      Aristotle founded a school named Lycium in Athens

·      Aristotle is considered as the father of Biology, Politics and the Science of Reasoning

·      Aristotle was considered as a ‘Walking University’.

·      Hipparchus calculated the diameter of the Moon

·      Erathosthenes calculated the circumstances of the Earth

·      The first Olympic Games were held at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / GREEK CIVILIZATION / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES