Greek city-states were built around the agora, or the marketplace/ civic center and the temple. These two areas held great importance to the Ancient Greeks. The agora was the place that the people gathered throughout the day and the temple was where they made offerings to their patron god.
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Many Greek cities were built on a rocky hill called an acropolis. The name acropolis was from the Greek word akros, meaning highest, and polis, meaning city.
They built them when they originally began to ocupy the area of the eastern Mediterranean three thousand years ago. At first they were built of wood, but in the mid 1st Millennium BCE they switched to stone. These stone temples were built in the Greek cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas thereafter over the next millennium.
The Parthenon was built as a temple to the ancient Greek goddess Athena.
Which ancient Greek historian started a false rumor concerning the people who built the pyramids?