Important legacies of ancient Athens

Athena Temple

One of the many buildings that we can find in Athens

Athens It has historically been an important city and today, the capital of Greece, although it does not have the importance it once had, it can boast of having changed the world, something that has always made the Greek people proud, but ... What should we thank this town? Lovers of history will know many things, but those who are profane in the matter surely will not fully know many of the things that this city has offered for everyone.

One of the things that we should thank this city for, because it was invented there, was the democracia. It was originated around the year 500 BC, when the city had about 30.000 inhabitants and the predominant government was what the Greeks called "Government of the people”Or democracy as it is known today. This allowed the ability to have freedom to express themselves in public.

As well we must thank him for public works,, where the Athenians were the first to bring water to their city through an underground aqueduct and which allowed water to be distributed throughout the city using terracotta pipes. They were public works projects of great importance and that contributed notably to the growth of the city and what many other large cities were acquiring their knowledge from.

Another thing that is owed to the Athenians was the architecture, something that was non-existent in the country until the XNUMXth century BC, but from that moment on, public structures began to be built, some of them already swept away by time and the action of man and others of which only ruins remain today .

Wood, limestone, terracotta, bronze, marble and clay bricks were the most common materials to build and the architects of those years erected five different classes of buildings: religious, civic, national, funerary and recreational, these constructions rapidly spreading throughout the whole city and the whole country since the XNUMXth century BC


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