Greece

Background

Greece was a civilization based around the Aegean Sea and the larger Mediterranean Sea. Referring to Greece as a unified civilization is very interesting because of the various regional and competing city-states that comprised it. Unlike other forms of government in the ancient era, the city-states of Greece were largely autonomous for most of their history and often at war with each other.

However, when the threat of external invasion from the Achaemenid Persian Empire, they quickly unified and mobilized into an effective force that pushed the Persians out of Greece for good.

Known as the father of western civilization, Greece was renowned for its cultural influence and its poets, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, artists and many others are well known to this current day. In fact, if it were not for the Muslims, most of these works would have been lost to the ravages of time and war.