How Did Ancient Greek Impact On Modern Society

Throughout history many civilizations have had a large impact on modern society. The Chinese, Indian, Roman, Greek, Aztec, and Incan culture have played an extraordinary role on how modern society plays out. The Chinese helped develop the silk road, the Aztec built great buildings, the Greeks had great ideas on astronomy. All these civilizations helped develop society as it is today and therefore society had progressed to a more civilized way of living. Society is a bunch of ideas put together differently based on the region but is based on which ancient civilization had the greatest impact. Ancient Greece has had the largest influence on modern society such as in language, mathematics, and astronomy.

The development of language by the Greeks had a large impact on many languages. “Finally, our language has roots in Ancient Greece, from individual letters through to complete words

“All of which goes to show not only that the Earth is circular in shape, but also that it is a sphere of no great size: for otherwise the effect of so slight a change of place would not be quickly apparent” (Violatti). Aristotle helped piece evidence that the world was indeed circular. In Ancient Greece it was a common notion that the Earth was flat, but many did not agree with this idea until it was proven 2000 years later after it was first proposed. “Using mathematics and careful observation, the astronomer Aristarchus argued that the Earth rotated on its axis and orbited the sun” (Ellis and Esler 142). The theory of the Earth rotating the sun is called the heliocentric theory which says that the Earth is not what the planets orbit around but rather the Sun. This theory was later proven to be true and the previous theory that stated that the planets orbit Earth was discarded. To conclude, Ancient Greek astronomy was impactful to modern