Why is there a relationship between ancient Greek civilization and Aegean civilization?

The geographical scope of ancient Greece mainly includes the southern Balkans, the Aegean Sea and the South China Sea islands, and the western coastal areas of Asia Minor. Its overseas immigrants spread to the south of the Italian peninsula, Sicily and the northwest coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the west, North Africa in the south, West Asia and the vast areas along the Black Sea in the east. Ancient Greek civilization first developed in Crete. Crete civilization, centered on Knossos in the northern part of the island, reached its peak during Minos' reign in the middle of 2000 BC. Obviously, due to some natural reasons, civilization suddenly disappeared after this, and the development of ancient Greek civilization moved to the Balkans, and Mycenae in the northwest of the Peloponnesian Peninsula became the new center of civilization development. Mycenae civilization absorbed the achievements of Crete civilization, and at the same time achieved new prosperity in economy, culture and production technology, and the linear characters seen in Crete civilization were further developed and used more. The famous Trojan War took place in the late period of this civilization (BC12nd century).

After the war, Mycenae civilization declined. After a period of historical retrogression, Greek society entered a new period of civilization development centered on Athens, and achieved unprecedented brilliant achievements, becoming a classic period of the development of ancient Greek civilization. In the late 4th century BC, Greece was conquered by the newly rising Macedonia. Alexander's eastward expedition promoted the economic exchanges and cultural integration between the East and the West, and the ancient Greek civilization entered a "Hellenistic" period. Under the influence of oriental civilization, it has achieved new development in a wider scope. As an ancient civilization, ancient Greece made great contributions in science and technology, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, literature, drama, sculpture, painting and architecture, and became the source of the development of European civilization in later generations.

In the history of world civilization, ancient Greek civilization is famous for its unique style and outstanding achievements, and there is even a saying that "words must be called Greece". Shelley once said in a poem, "We are all Greeks." Greece is the birthplace and cradle of European civilization. Without Greece, it is impossible to imagine what European civilization would be like. Today, the western world has the tradition of Greek civilization everywhere. However, few people think of themselves as Greeks with philosophical imagination like Shelley, except citizens living in the Greek peninsula. So who is the Greek?

History shows that Mycenae, the conqueror of Crete and the destroyer of Troy, was one of the earliest inhabitants of Greece. Later, he became a slave of the northern barbarians and gradually split into Dorian and Ionian. They all have the same belief and language, so they are called Greeks. By BC12nd century, the Aegean civilization was seriously damaged by the invasion of barbarians in the north. However, the unyielding Greeks re-established a splendid Greek civilization on the ruins of this once rich civilization and became the true ancestor of European civilization. In the Greek peninsula, which entered the slave society, more than 200 slave city-states were established. Each city-state takes the city as the center and forms countries of different sizes together with suburban villages. The most powerful of these are Athens and Sparta. Because the country is poor and the people are poor, in order to survive and develop, wars between the city-states continue, and the law of the jungle prevails. In order to save themselves and plunder wealth, the city-state implemented the policy of strengthening the country Qiang Bing, implemented democratic politics within the city-state, and the free people directly participated in the governance of the city-state, attaching great importance to the exercise of the national physical fitness. Therefore, it is the sacred duty of every citizen to manage the country and exercise power.

Greece has a pleasant climate, abundant sunshine and moderate temperature, which is suitable for outdoor nude sports and competitions under such natural conditions. Because of the nudity movement, people's ideas have changed, and they are no longer ashamed of nudity, but proud of bodybuilding, which has attracted the attention of aestheticians and the performance of artists. Aestheticism discovered the beauty of the human body, and artists created beautiful human bodies. The great politician Pericles once said, "We are people who love beauty." The Greek nation loves and creates beauty. In the environment of democracy, freedom and fierce competition, the Greeks not only discovered, bred and created beauty, but also created God. In the eyes of the Greeks, the most perfect person is God. So the Greeks respected people and raised them to the height of God. God and man are the same. The Greeks regarded a strong body as the origin of all goodness and beauty, and regarded Greek mythology as the spiritual source of art, as Marx pointed out: "Greek mythology is not only an arsenal of Greek art.