Flavia TorresProfessor StarrenHUM– 1020January 27, 2021Video: Time Life's Lost Civilizations - A Moment in ExcellenceWatch the attached video and type 10 things you already knew and 10 things you learned.If you can't get to 10 on each, it really is not a big deal.Just make the best effort you can!!!The video is only about 48 minutes long, not over an hour like the minutes reflect.Sorry for thequality.There are others on YouTube that are better quality but don't have closed captioning.10 things I already knew1.Apollo, the god of knowledge light music and healing2.the Ancient Greeks were the greatest thinkers of the age.3.the Parthenon has stood overlooking Athens recalling a remarkable moment inhistory the Golden Age of Greece.4.The city-states of ancient Greece were all highly competitive5.Pericles leader of the Athenians.6.Pericles built the Parthenon to house and honor the deity to whom the city wasdedicated the goddess Athena7.Parthenon has influenced the history of architecture in the West for centuries8.The classic age of Greece produced some of the world's greatest and most originalminds the philosophers as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.9.Athenian were noted for art and sport.10. Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.10 things that I didn't know.1.Pericles paid for the magnificence of all of Athens out of taxes collected fromother city-states and returned for protection.2.Athens was completed in 50 years.3.Pericles came to power in 461 BC.4.After its destruction in 1687 the temple was pillaged by treasure seekers.
5.Athens was designed by the best architects in Greece and adorned by the greatestGreek sculptor Phidias.6.For 2,000 years, the Parthenon has stood overlooking Athens recalling aremarkable moment in history the Golden Age of Greece.7.Pericles presided over the world's first democracy.8.the Acropolis in Athens represents a pinnacle of achievement in the history ofWestern civilizations.9.Apollo's temple passing 3,000 statues and Treasuries filled with the riches.10. Athens grew more powerful as many city-states and islands turned to her forprotection from their mutual enemy the Persians and so the Athenian Empire wasborn.The year is 1687 the people of Athens are under siege unknown to them enemy cannon line a hilloverlooking one of the world's most magnificent buildings the Parthenon.Tragically the Parthenon had been used to store of all thing’s gunpowder.One of the most beautiful buildings ever conceived it was almost completely destroyed. For2,000 years the Parthenon has stood overlooking Athens recalling a remarkable moment inhistory the Golden Age of Greece.The city-states of ancient Greece were all highly competitive but there was one state thatexpected to win and usually did it was the powerful brilliant daring city of Athens. During thefifth century BC Athens grew more powerful as many city-states and islands turned to her forprotection from their mutual enemy the Persians and so the Athenian Empire was born.
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