List the cultural characteristics of ancient Greece and Rome.

1, the characteristics of ancient Greek culture:

Greece is a federal city, each city is an independent slave country, and there is no unified political system. The so-called Greek civilization is an all-encompassing civilization, such as Athens, Troy, Sparta and so on. More emphasis on philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and other sciences, generally more advanced.

2. Cultural characteristics of ancient Rome:

Roman civilization was more complicated. Generally speaking, we are talking about the first Roman Empire and the former Roman Republic. Rome is unified in political system and implements federal democracy. The concept of democracy was put forward and practiced earlier. Politically, it is very similar to the United States now. Compared with Greek civilization, Rome is a powerful country, but its civilization lags far behind Greece.

So Roman civilization was inherited from Greece. This is similar to the Yuan and Qing Dynasties in ancient China. Ancient Rome was greatly influenced by Sparta, which advocated will and had potential embryonic form of idealism philosophy.

In addition, the vast territory of Rome makes Roman civilization more diverse, including inheriting and absorbing Greek civilization, Carthage civilization, Phoenician civilization, Germanic civilization, Egyptian civilization and even early Christian civilization. Typical strong culture has great influence, diversity and openness.

Extended data:

1. Ancient Greek literature reflects the real life in Europe during the transition from a clan society to a slave society, especially people in the ancient world's thinking about the relationship between war and peace, and between man and nature.

The outstanding heroic behavior of ancient Greece and the great changes in social history are deeply reflected in literary works. These literary works not only laid the foundation for the development of the whole western literature, but also provided rich literature materials for people to study the history and society of the ancient Greek world.

2. In the process of establishing and ruling the country, ancient Rome absorbed and used for reference the achievements of ancient civilizations, and created its own civilization on this basis. The most important contribution of ancient Roman civilization to the development of western and even world civilization lies in two aspects: Roman law in the first half and Christianity in the second half.

In the history of western civilization, ancient Roman civilization plays a connecting role. Ancient Rome usually refers to the civilization that rose in the central part of the Italian peninsula from the 8th century BC. After the Roman monarchy and the Roman Republic, it expanded into a huge Roman empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa around 1 century BC.

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