Classical Antiquity | 332BC - 629AD

This part: Classical Antiquity. The period is notable for the rise Greek civilization, and how it claims it power throughout parts of Europe, Africa and Asia. Powerful Roman emperors and Alexander the Great himself got to claim the Land of the Pyramids. It was a matter of time before Egypt was conquered by another civilization outside the Greco-Roman realm.

And next part the third part of Egyptian history: Middle Ages.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.

Conventionally, it is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Epic Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century AD).

It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (300–600), blending into the Early Middle Ages (600–1000).

Such a wide sampling of history and territory covers many disparate cultures and periods.

Classical antiquity may refer also to an idealised vision among later people of what was, in Edgar Allan Poe's words, "the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome."

The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with some influences from the ancient Near East, was the basis of art, philosophy, society, and educational ideals, until the Roman imperial period.

The Romans preserved, imitated and spread over Europe these ideals until they were able to competitively rival the Greek culture, as the Latin language became widespread and the classical world became bilingual, Greek and Latin.

This Greco-Roman cultural foundation has been immensely influential on the language, politics, law, educational systems, philosophy, science, warfare, poetry, historiography, ethics, rhetoric, art and architecture of the modern world.

From the surviving fragments of classical antiquity, a revival movement was gradually formed from the 14th century onwards which came to be known later in Europe as the Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-classical revivals in the 18th and 19th centuries.

[masterspark]

My favourite period of Egyptian history

[Azkaaska]

Ah yes, the least watched video in this channel

[nicocola]

Cool video but I think you could use your talent on other things, like making countryballs for example