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Hellenic civilization
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
was a
civilization
belonging to a period of
Greek history
that lasted from the
Archaic period
of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of
antiquity
(
600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the
Early Middle Ages
and the
Byzantine
era. Included in ancient Greece is the period of
Classical Greece
, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a
Persian invasion
by
Athenian
leadership. Because of conquests by
Alexander the Great
of Macedonia,
Hellenistic civilization
flourished from
Central Asia
to the western end of the
Mediterranean Sea
.
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