Ancient Greece

 
Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that starts from the period of ancient Greece in the 8th century BC to the 6th until the Roman conquest in 146 BC Corinthian. This civilization reached its peak in the classical Greek period, which began to sprout in the 5th century BC to the 4th. In this classic period of Greek city-states led by Athens and repulsed the attack of the Persian Empire. The golden age of Athens ended with the conquest of Athens to Sparta in the war Peloponesia in the year 404 BC.
By most historians, this civilization is considered to be the foundation stone for Western Civilization. Greek culture was a powerful influence for the Roman Empire, which then forward its version to other parts of Europe.
The term "Ancient Greece" applied to areas used Greek in ancient times. Its territory is not only limited to the peninsula of modern Greece, but also including other areas inhabited by Greeks: Cyprus and the Aegean islands, the Aegean coast of Anatolia (then called Ionia), Sicily and southern Italy (known as Magna Graecia), and another Greek settlements scattered along the coast of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, Iberia, and Taurica.
Ancient Greek civilization is very influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and art, pushing the Renaissance in Western Europe, and rose again in the Neo-Classical revival in the 18th century and the 19th in Europe and America.