By Lambe Lamis 
Athens is the funds town of Greece. It is a modern-day, huge metropolis as the capitals of other European nations are, and much more than a million men and women are living in Athens and its suburbs. But Athens is also just one of the most essential metropolitan areas of historical past. Hundreds of a long time in the past, when most of the men on earth have been nevertheless ignorant savages, the discovering and the science and the art of these days had their commence in Athens. About five thousand years ago, adult males to start with built a town in which Athens stands right now. They built the town all-around a rocky hill about four hundred feet superior.
On this hill they constructed walled-in fortifications named an acropolis, about which there is a separate write-up. The persons lived all over the hill and farmed the land. If an enemy attacked, they could all go to the Acropolis for safety. All cities in people ancient times handed underneath the rule of a single king soon after one more, fought and dropped a lot of wars, often had been conquered and dominated by neighbouring peoples, and from time to time conquered the neighbouring peoples and ruled them. For hundreds of a long time, Athens rose and fell in this way.
But about 3 thousand several years ago-not extended after the calendar year 1000 B.C. – the people today of Athens began to create a civilisation bigger than the planet experienced identified just before. The initial move toward this was the Greek language as the Athenians discovered to use it. No other language then experienced the words required to create wonderful textbooks of science as nicely as wonderful poetry and other literature. The poetry of Homer, composed in this language, is continue to as excellent as any that has at any time been composed. In the hundreds of a long time that adopted, the drama was born in the performs of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and some others. 3 of the finest philosophers of all time, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, taught and wrote in this Greek language.
Rules penned in this language, by the wonderful statesman Solon and many others, gave Athens a single of the earliest democratic governments. The Greek language is however employed by scholars all over the earth. Athens became a democracy in 508 B.C. The two hundred years that adopted had been the times of its finest glory. Through this interval the sculptor Phidias and other Athenian sculptors developed the spectacular structures on the Acropolis and carved statues that are however models of beauty. The men and women elected their possess leaders. Athens was a “town-condition,” which suggests that it was a city but also an unbiased country. There were being lots of slaves, having said that. In 338 B.C., Athens was conquered by King Philip of Macedon, a neighbouring region in Greece. (Philip was the father of Alexander the Wonderful, who conquered almost the complete civilised planet.)
Immediately after it fell below the rule of Macedon, Athens did not become significant and unbiased again for more than two thousand decades. The Romans ruled it, then a collection of conquerors until the Turks built it part of Turkey about four hundred many years in the past. Athens grew to become just a little city. In the year 1834, the entire country of Greece became independent once again and Athens was manufactured the funds. It started to improve, and now is a great town once again. It is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Church (also identified as the Orthodox Catholic Church), and the money of the kingdom of Greece. About two thirds of all the producing in Greece is completed in and in the vicinity of Athens. The stays of numerous of the great structures of historic Athens, which include the Acropolis, can nevertheless be noticed there. All through Entire world War II, the Germans occupied Greece and captured Athens, but it was not broken.