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The ancient greece is the first period with hiistoriography.

The Greece of the past is not how we know it today.

The most famous of these city-states are Athens and Sparta.

Sparta was the most militarily powerful of the city-states beginning in 650 BC.

During the period, athens was a great center of learning, and many of the famous philosophers we know today lived here.

Athens independence ended when Phillip II of Macedon, the father

of Alexander the Great, conquered them.

Athenians who have made the greatest mark on the

modern world.