Greeks Were Highly Civilized

About 400 B.C. some nomadic tribes left Russian and headed towards South. When they reached the Mediterranean region, they settled there, despite the heat and the tough conditions of living.
People who settled in Greece borrowed vital features from the civilizations of Egypt, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia and India. Greek civilized emerged from the blending of all these cultures. The Greeks, it is said generally, were highly civilized. The ancient Greek had an enormous thirst for knowledge.

To quote few examples: Thales of Miletus studied the movements of the stars and could predict eclipses of the Sun. He was a mathematician, physician, astronomer, geographer and philosopher.

Pythagoras was the Father of Mathematics. Among his discoveries were the multiplication tables, the decimal system and the theorem concerning the square on the hypotenuse – Pythagoras’s theorem.

Democritus established that everything is made up of a quantity of tiny particles called “atoms”. In the 5^th century B.C. there were already philologists, (scholars who study languages) in Greece. Architects and Sculptors often used to work together, the results of which can still be seen in the splendid temples and buildings of old age.

Greek citizens were law abiding. It was in Greece that the principle of democracy was born.

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote plays which are still popular today. The historian Herodotus wrote an account of his travels to Egypt which is still a valuable source. Thucydides and Demosthenes turned public speaking into an art. It was Socrates who pronounced the famous maxim: “know thyself”. His pupil, Plato, sought to know the true the beautiful and the good. Socrates invented the Socratic method of argument, by questions and answers.