Ancient Greece:

- Ancient Greeks placed high
importance for the honoring of the gods,
and tended to blame or praise the gods for the happenings in their lives. Thus,
many of the wizards and witches were able to blend in well into the ancient
Greek communities.

-In 477 B.C, Perikles began
planning for a magnificent building, now known as the Parthenon, a temple was dedicated to goddess Athena, the
goddess of wisdom. However, due to massive undertaking, nobody knew how it
would be possible for such a temple to be built. So, Perikles, a magical being,
built parts of the Parthenon with magic in the night.

-In the fifth century B.C., without
magical blood, the Greeks would have lost the Greco-Persian Wars.

- Phillip II of Macedonia, a prisoner of the Greeks, observed the
Persian’s military tactics. Upon his release, he used his newly acquired
insights to strengthen Macedonia to the perils of the Greeks.

- By 336 B.C, when Phillip II had died, Sparta and another small colony
near Byzantium was all of Greece that remained free of Macedonian rule.

-Alexander the Great, Phillip II’s son, expanded this empire to
enormous proportions. However, due to disagreements between his sons, the
empire was separated into parts. With this, Rome took the opportunity to conquer
both Macedonia and Greece by 145 B.C.,
to become the dominant Mediterranean and world power.