Greece

Ancient Greece, known to its own people as Hellas. Ancient Greece was intermediate in the history of human progre , between Egypt and tome. It was not great enough for a world-power, and it may be said broadly that only through Rome has Greece left an impre on modern times. The people of Greece achieved a high degree of culture, in some respects not surpa ed to this day, although their democracies were in no instance of the modern type, but only civic organizations, holding the rural districts and residents in an inferior and more or le servile position.