Isn’t it  amazing that Ancient Greece managed to influence the whole world so powerfully! Democracy, theater, the Olympic Games, philosophy, astronomy, history and mathematics – all of this comes from 

Ancient Greece, or Hellas, as the Greeks themselves called their country. This is why Greece is called «the cradle of Western civilization».

While other ancient civilizations boasted of the size of their territory  and their innumerable armies, the Greecs  created their own art, science, sports and  politics, and the whole world still uses  many of their ideas and inventions