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They had Solid white buildings. the colorful gardens they had was different. They had stone paved paths and the light blue churches. which were their typical characteristics of the Cycladic architecture. -
Minoan buildings usually had flat, tiled roofs with plaster, wood or flagstone floors, and usually were two to three stories high. The lower walls were typically constructed of stone and rubble, and the upper walls of mudbrick. the Ceilings were made of timber which held up the roofs. -
The buildings were built around a large rectangular central hall. The Mycenaean center hall was the before for the later Archaic and Classical temples of the Greek world. They had an entrance porch, a vestibule, and the hall itself. -
The Mycenaean palace centres of mainland Greece. Crete were destroyed along with, presumably, the states they governed. key aspects of palatial culture that had developed over the preceding two centuries, such as writing and administration, were lost or rejected. -
The Greek Dark Ages were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history. The Postpalatial Bronze Age and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age. They included all the ceramic phases. They lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BCE. -
The Geometric period was a time of like crazy new ideas and changes in Greek society. The population dramatically increased. Proto Urban life
reemerged, bringing with it overcrowding
and political like tensions. -
The Greek Archaic Period started from uncertainty, and ended with the Persians being ejected from Greece. For good after the battles of Plataea and Mykale. The Archaic Period is preceded by the Greek Dark Age. -
The Doric Order of Greek architecture was the first style of stone temple architecture in ancient Greece. It became popular in the Archaic Period. Which replaced the previous style of basic, wood structures. -
The art history of the era is generally subdivided into four periods. The Protogeometric the Geometric the Archaic and the Classical. The Archaic which was around the 700 BCE which really started the tall pole like rock structures that showed upfront that everyone thinks about when you say ancient greece. -
The temple of Hera is a Doric temple. The temple which is long and narrow and has large structure around it. Which is one of the earliest examples of monumental temple construction in Greece. -
The Ionic order 600 BCE in Ionia. As well as the southwestern coast land and islands of Asia. settled by Ionians, where Ionic Greek was spoken. The Ionic order column was being practiced in mainland Greece in the near years. -
One of the oldest monuments in Greece, the Temple of Hera. Which was made in 580 BCE which was destroyed by an earthquake on the 4th century then rebuilt later. became solely dedicated to the goddess when the great Temple of Zeus was constructed nearby. Today it is at the altar of this temple that the Olympic flame is lit and carried to all parts of the world where the Olympic Games are being held. -
The famous ancient citadel located in Athens. It was once played like a big middle or central role in the Greek group. it was a religious center and a site to like show the Athenian power. Most temples and structures inside the Acropolis were built around this time as well. -
The Parthenon was built around the 480 BCE some years after the Persian invasion. Pericles commenced building the Parthenon to replace the earlier temple. The Older Parthenon was destroyed by the Achaemenids during the Destruction of Athens around the time. The one they destroyed was black and the one they rebuilt was gray. -
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia in Greece. Which was dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order. -
These propylaea were built wide so the chariots could then pass through. The construction was part of Pericles great rebuilding program. It like served as a separating from that to the religious parts of a city. -
The Erechtheion was the most important religious building in Athens. Probably began around the time. during a long war between Athens and Sparta, it was completed around the time. Six female figures supported the roof of the Erechtheion. Known as the Caryatids. -
The temple is one of the earliest post Parthenon's. which is one of the earliest monuments in which all three ancient Greek architectural orders Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are found together. It also has the earliest surviving Corinthian column capital. -
The main difference is that Romans used smooth as opposed to like fluted shafts. The Romans used the Corinthian order much more than did the Greeks. The Corinthian is commonly regarded as the best looking of the three orders. The shaft is the skinniest of the Greek orders. -
By that time Rome had expanded its influence to the east and took control of Greece. Which became one of Rome's richest provinces. that territory could not be directly ruled or governed. Called proconsuls, were put in charge of the taken over areas.