Contributions of Greek and Roman Empires

Greece has made many contributions to the formation of Western civilization, but probably their most important contribution is the Olympic Games. Originally celebrating the gods, the Olympics became a festival of five days in 472 BC. The first day of the game was devoted to the sacrifice. There are a lot of sacrifices, but the players alone will sacrifice to God over time. On the second day of celebration, the most important Olympics and soccer games were held.

It is not right to say that Western civilization is only affected by the Roman Empire. Indeed, the Greek Empire also played an important role in civilization. In a sense, the Roman Empire is a two cultural empire of Rome and Latin Rome. The Greeks proposed an idea of ​​the alphabet being used today. The idea of ​​Austria also started in Greece. Rome spread the concept of democracy, but the Greeks proposed this idea. There are common citizens in the empire who participate in the government and choose their own leaders. As made in today's court, the ancient Greek empire had ordinary civil trials and actual jurors. Payment of labor in Greece Greek literature began writing ideas for literature and theater. Over time, Greek became the language used by the educated elite. The western half of the Roman Empire was completely Greek

Latin is still the main written language of the Roman Empire, but the Greeks are the languages ​​used by well educated elites, as most literature studied by Romans is written in Greek. Eastern half of the Roman Empire, and later became Byzantine Empire, Latin could not replace Greek. Expansion of the Roman Empire spread Latin during Europe, but Common Latin developed into dialects in various places and gradually converted to many different romance languages.

The Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire. After the collapse of the West Roman Empire, historians created the word "Byzantine" to mean the eastern part of the Roman Empire. This term comes from Greek city Byzantium. Byzantium was redeveloped, renamed Constantinople and became the capital of the east. It was used to indicate the fact that this part of the empire was concentrated in most non-Greek territories of Greece and Greece shortly after the collapse of the Empire. After 140 years of Western fall, Greek replaced Latin as the empire 's official language in 620.