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No society in the history of the world has left such an impressionable culture as the Greeks. Their accomplishments were many, some of which were; warfare, literature, politics, art, philosophy, and athletics. Other nations have used the Greek’s ideas, many of ....

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.... traveled throughout the civilized world and recorded the manners and customs of elder nations. About 450 BC, a group of philosophers, the Sophists, became prominent. They were groups of teachers, and scholars of theories of knowledge. They invented what is known in literature as rhetoric, or the art of composing and delivering persuasive speeches. The Sophist movement contributed to the rise of prose over poetry in Athens, as shown with the attached pictures. The ancient Greeks did not establish one unified country. Instead they established city-states, each called a polis, which were self-governed and independent. They often warred ....