Economy in Ancient Greece

In the community, the work of slaves, women, men is different. Slavery is an important part of the ancient Greek civilization. Slaves are not only domestic workers, but also factory workers, shopkeepers, miners, farm workers, crews, and almost anyone can find it. People may have many ways to become slaves. They could have been born as slaves, prisoners in battle were abandoned in early childhood. Alternatively, if families need money, they may sell their children to slaves.

Slaves are undoubtedly the majority of the work force of ancient Greece. Indeed, as Finley did, ancient Greece was a "slave dependence society". Because there are so many slaves, indispensable to the economy and fully integrated into daily life and social values, there is no slavery and the ancient Greek civilization can not exist that way. In classical Athens, there are an estimated 120,000 slaves. Therefore, slaves account for more than a third of the total population, adult males have an adult population of more than 3: 1.

According to the economic height of ancient Greece, in the 4th century BC, Greece was the world's most advanced economy. According to some economist historians, it is one of the most advanced industrialization before the economy. This can be proved to be more than four times the average daily salary of Greek workers (about 13 times the average daily salary of Egyptian workers (about 3 kg)). The Greek cities were originally monarchy, and many of them were small, but their rulers called Basileus to be misleading. In a country where the arable land is always short, power is made up of a few landlords that form warrior nobles, often performing a small inter-city war between the land and immediately overthrowing the monarchy. Around this time, the rise of the commercial class (as indicated by the introduction of coins in around 6 BC) brought class conflict to the big cities. Beginning in 650 BC

The ancient ancient (or ancient Greek and Roman) was about 900 years, when ancient Greece and ancient Rome (first republic, then empire) ruled the Mediterranean region from about 500 BC. - 400 BC, there is a tendency to confuse ancient Greece and Rome. Romans adopted various aspects of Greek culture when conquering Europe under the rule of Greece (145-30 BC). For example, the Roman adopted the temple of Greek gods and goddesses, but changed the name - the God of war in Greece is Ares, the god of war in Rome is Mars. The ancient Romans also copied the art of ancient Greece. However, the Romans used marble and originally made copies of sculptures made of copper by the Greeks.