Socrates was charged of not honoring the gods of Athens and of corrupting the youth. He received the death sentence for<em> mora</em>l <em>corruption </em>and <em>impiety</em>. His refusal to escape was because:
1 - to flee would idicate a fear of death, which he didn't have.
2 - escaping would make his friends liable in law.
3 - this could cause him to break his "social contract" with the state, and he didn't want to harm the state.
Automatic guns and artillery weapons
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Answer:
Italians were exposed to new ideas as travelers and traders passed through their country.
Italy had big maritime republics such as Genoa and Venice. This meant there was a great influx of different people with different cultures, technology, literature, art and so on. So much contact with other cultures led to the start of the renaissance. Especially when thinkers from Constantinople arrived after the fall of Byzantium.
The term “classical Greece” refers to the period between the Persian Wars at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The classical period was an era of war and conflict—first between the Greeks and the Persians, then between the Athenians and the Spartans—but it was also an era of unprecedented political and cultural achievement. Besides the Parthenon and Greek tragedy, classical Greece brought us the historian Herodotus, the physician Hippokrates and the philosopher Socrates. It also brought us the political reforms that are ancient Greece’s most enduring contribution to the modern world: the system known as demokratia, or “rule by the people.”
